Dr. des. Florian Hoof

Dr. des. Florian Hoof is p art of the main teaching staff at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt where he holds a Post-Doc position at the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies. His PhD thesis «Angels of Efficiency. A Media History of Consulting, 1880-1930» was funded by a grand of the German National Academic Foundation. He was visiting professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano; scientist in residence at the Department of History of Technology at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich and at Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney; visiting scholar at the Archives and Special Collection Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana and research assistant at the Department of Media Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum.

http://www.tfm.uni-frankfurt.de/Mitarbeiter/Hoof/index.html

Research areas, publications and activities
His fields of research include Industrial and Sport Films, Production Studies, Historical Epistemology, Science and Technology Studies and History of Media Technology. He currently works on a joint research with the Department of Business Information Systems, at the University of Sydney Business School. The project develops an interdisciplinary perspective between film and media theory, history of technology and organizational theory (http://www.sociomateriality.de).

Recent publications:

Hoof, Florian:  Engel der Effizienz. Eine Mediengeschichte der Unternehmensberatung. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2015.

Hoof, Florian: ›Art of Flight‹ – Produktion, Distribution und Ästhetik im ›neuen Sportfilm‹. In:  montage/av Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation, Vol. 22, Nr. 1, 2013, S. 137-160.

Hoof, Florian et al. (eds.):  Jenseits des Labors. Transformationen von Wissen zwischen Entstehungs‑ und Anwendungskontext. Bielefeld: transcript, 2011.

Further publication: https://uni-frankfurt.academia.edu/FlorianHoof