Andreas Rauscher is Professor for Media History and Media Theory at the department of Virtual Design at the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern. Research interests: Game studies. film studies, comic studies, transmedia studies, pop history and cultural studies, genre theory. media aesthetics, questions of design across media. He has been teaching at the Universities of Siegen, Kiel, and Freiburg and teaches courses on games and film at the Film Academy Ludwigsburg and the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. Lecturer at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. Contributions to the magazines epd Film, Pop-Zeitschrift and Testcard. Scientific curator for the German Film Museum at Frankfurt am Main (Exhibition Film & Games – Interactions. International catalogue available from Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2015). Among his book publications as an author and co-editor are volumes on Film and Games, the Simpsons, super hero movies, Comics and Games, David Lynch, Brian De Palma, John Carpenter, Star Wars, the James Bond series and the Czechoslovakian Nová Vlna as well as introductions to game studies and to comic studies. In 2002 he received his Ph.D. for a dissertation on the cultural and cinematic aspects of the Star Trek Phenomenon and in 2011 he got his post-doctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) from the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz for a study on Ludic Fictions – Genre Concepts in Video Games (Marburg 2012). Current Publications: Game History and Game Canon (together with Dîlan Çakir and Lilly Welz).