Rasmus Greiner is associate professor for film studies at the University of Bremen. He is founder and general editor of the open access journal Research in Film and History (www.film-history.org). Greiner studied Media, Film, History and German Literature in Marburg. He received his doctoral degree with a thesis on asymmetrical wars in feature films since the late 1990s. His areas of research comprise the audio-visual production of history, global film culture, war movies, genre studies, and film aesthetics. Currently he leads a three-year DFG-funded research project “German Comedy after the Third Reich”.