Dr. Moritz Fink

Lebenslauf | Bionote

Jahrgang 1980, Studium der amerikanischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte an der LMU München; 2014: Promotion über die kulturelle Bedeutung der Fernsehserie The Simpsons. Seit 2014 Mitarbeiter der Akademie für Politische Bildung, außerdem als Medienwissenschaftler und Autor tätig.

Publikationen | Publications

Bücher | Books

Understanding The Simpsons: Animating the Politics and Poetics of Participatory Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. [Link zur Verlagsseite] [Rezension der früherer Aufl. 2016]

The Simpsons: A Cultural History. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. [Link zur Verlagsseite] [Review on Library Journal] [Review on Scene Point Blank] [Review on Radioactive Book Reviews]

Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance (co-edited with Marilyn DeLaure). New York: NYU Press, 2017. [Link zur Verlagsseite] [Review in International Journal of Communication] [Review on The Goose] [Review on Foreword] [Review on WeMakeMoneyNotArt] [Interview by Henry Jenkins]

Beiträge in Sammelbänden | Book Chapters

Des Präsidenten neue Kleider: Populismus, Propaganda, Protest und das Phänomen Donald J. Trump im digitalen Informationszeitalter. In Feinde, Freunde, Fremde? Deutsche Perspektiven auf die USA, hrsg. von Volker Benkert. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. 323–339.

Amerikakritik – Made in USA: Die Repräsentation Amerikas durch die Simpsons. In Feinde, Freunde, Fremde? Deutsche Perspektiven auf die USA, hrsg. von Volker Benkert. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. 239–259.

Phallic Noses, Blood-Filled Balloons, Exploding Popcorn, and Laughing-Gas-Squirting Flowers: Reading Images of the Evil Clown. In Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaugher, edited by John A. Dowell and Cynthia J. Miller. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. 29–42. [Link zu Google Books]

Introduction to Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance (with Marilyn DeLaure), edited by Marilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink. New York: NYU Press, 2017. 1–35. [PDF]

Culture Jamming in Prime Time: The Simpsons and the Tradition of Corporate Satire. In Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance, edited by Marilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink. New York: NYU Press, 2017. 254–279. [Link zu Google Books]

An Eyepatch of Courage: Battle-Scarred Amazon Warriors in the Movies of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. In Transnational Horror Cinema: Bodies of Excess and the Global Grotesque, edited by Sophia Siddique and Raphael Raphael. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 133–158. [Link zu Google Books]

Zeitschriftenbeiträge | Journal Articles

"Cool" Media Studies: McCloud, McLuhan, and the Popification of the Humanities. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 6.3 (2022), special issue "Understanding Comics at 30," edited by Rachel Miller and Daniel Worden. 250–261.

Of Maus and Gen: Author Avatars in Nonfiction Comics. International Journal of Comic Art 20.1 (2018), special section "Transnational Graphic Narratives," edited by Daniel Stein, Lukas Etter, and Michael A. Chaney. 267–296. [PDF]

Why America Fought: Post-Postmodernism in Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. SPIEL: Journal of Media Culture 2.2 (2016), special issue "History as TV-Series," edited by Edgar Lersch and Reinhold Viehoff. 127–146. [PDF]

"People Who Look Like Things": Representations of Disability in The Simpsons. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 7.3 (2013), special issue "Disability, Humour and Comedy," edited by Tom Coogan and Rebecca Mallett. 255–270. [PDF]

Sonst. Publikationen | Other Publications

Trick or Treat? Book review of Sandra Danneil, Trick, Treat, Transgress: The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror as a Popular-Culture History of the Digital Age (Marburg: Schüren, 2021), in Anglia: Journal of English Philology 140.2 (2022): 304–309. [PDF]

"Every Second Counts": Postmoderne Propaganda und kreativer Protest im Zeitalter des Donald Trump. Akademie für Politische Bildung, Akademie-Kurzanalyse 1/2017. [PDF]

All (Dis)Quiet on the Cultural Front: Culture Jamming in the Age of Trump (with Marilyn DeLaure). From the Square: NYU Press Blog. 23 March 2017.

F for Fake (in the Second Order): Yanis Varoufakis, the Germans, and the Middle Finger That Wasn't There. Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins. 17 Aug. 2015.

Politische Bildung in Gelb? 25 Jahre "Die Simpsons" und die gesellschaftspolitische Relevanz der Satire. Akademie für Politische Bildung, Akademie-Kurzanalyse 1/2015. [PDF]

Digital Detournement: Jamming with the Simpsons-Banksy Intro, Jonnnystyle. Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins. 5 Oct. 2012.