Film of the Islamic State

Yorck Beese is a film director, video producer and film scholar. During his time as a researcher in the junior research group Jihadism on the Internet (2017-2022), he has intensively researched the propaganda film of radical Sunni Islamism as well as other propaganda films. His fields of expertise include film analysis, propaganda film history, film aesthetics, and narratology.

• The Film of the Islamic State – “Like Hollywood”?.- The Proto-Film Period (2004–2006): Layman Video for Jihad.- The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), 2007–2013: The Age of Serialization, Shadow Authority, and Martyrs.- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), 2013–2014: Broadening the Window to Jihad.- The Film of the Caliphate (2014–2016): Cinefication.- The Downfall (2017–2019): Denialism.- The Post-Caliphate Period (2019–today): Full Circle.- The Cinefication of Jihadi Video.