Welcome to our new president, eminent film scholar Stephen Prince, and many thanks to outgoing president Murray Smith for his capable leadership over the past four years.
Carl Plantinga
I am Senior Research Fellow at Calvin University. My main research interests are film and ethics, cognitive film theory (especially the role of affect in film viewing), the philosophy of film, and documentary theory and history.
As a member of this society, you've probably fielded questions about what cognition is and how it relates to the media. Ideas about the nature of cognition have changed a good deal in the past two decades.
Below is an announcement I’m posting for Lisa Zunshine. –Carl Plantinga Members of the SCSMI are invited to submit abstracts to the first online conference to be hosted on the […]
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference was held at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, March 25-29. 478 Panels and workshops were held over five days, usually […]
Some of you may be interested in the below message about panels on cognitive approaches to film and literature at MLA in Chicago. Members of SCSMI will be presenting. From: […]
Dear SCSMI members, As some of you may know, several years ago we started a Scholarly Interest Group (SIG) for Cognitive/Analytic film studies at the Society of Cinema and Media […]