Conspiracy Ideologies in Films and Series

Denis Newiak (Dr. des.) is a freelance film and television scholar and researches aesthetics and narratives of loneliness in current television series as well as their community-building functions. He teaches media, film and television theory as well as communication and organizational management.

Anastasia Schnitzer (M. Sc.) is a graduate assistant at the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research DCM at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She is doing her PhD on the impact of complex narratives and mediatized contacts on stigmas and stereotypes of people with mental disorders. Her further research interests include the quality of mediatized contacts, empathy and persuasion in health communication.

On the introduction to an expendable research subject.- Conspiracy in the spy film.- Media form and political effect. Veit Harlan's Jud Süß as melodrama.- National Socialist conspiracy narratives: Veit Harlan's feature film Jud Süß.- The motif of whistleblowing and its functionalization in Vaxxed - From Cover-Up to Catastrophe- The loneliness of the conspiracy believer in pandemic seriesusing the examples of Sløborn and Y - The Last Man.- Dark Times in Winden: être-au-monde in the illogic of late capitalism.- The Ides of March.On conspiracies and counter-conspiracies in histotainment.- "In the web of conspiracy myths" - An exemplary analysis of three documentaries on the subject of conspiracy myths as a learning medium in school.