Dear Mr. Khillis, a colleague of mine is exploring in her MA Diss. the problem "fear" in movies (sequencies). If German is one of your preferred languages to read, I can look for her eMail-address and tel. All the things written by the Frankfurt School people are "pragmatically" developped theoretical prospects from prevoius writings 19./20. c. Their only advantage is a "communicative" orientation, so they offer an "interface" to the different levels of media and business management today. But if you grab deeper you'll discover much more "Basics" in Simmels or Kirkegaards, Jaspers writings and of other guys with an own way/style of thinking. If you want to explore shock and fear as phenomena you have also to look at the philosophical expertise of Kirkegaard and the sociological one of Durkheim. Durkheim has even written a monograph on self suicide. 1990 I exposed critically different points of "communication philosophy" under the aspect "How much should we go further in the develepment of "digital experience" (the only problem is, the monograph is written in Bulgarian, but I am about to go further in my communication "philosophy" writing a small article till the end of this). So I would be very interested to exchange some expertise looking for a dialogue with someone "digitally" immersed in his everyday experience. Best regards Ludmil -- Dr. Ludmil Duridanov Philosophical Faculty Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) <http://www.uni-jena.de/> +49 3641 9 44728 +49 3641 226 062 +49 173 806 41 53 http://www.uni-jena.de/~x1dulu ***