Interview with Vittorio Gallese Some of you may be interested in this interview with V. Gallese in the Huffington Post, by SCSMI member Karin Badt. Gallese is working on a […]
Carl Plantinga
I am a professor of Film and Media Studies at Calvin College. My main research interests are cognitive film theory (especially the role of affect in film viewing), the philosophy of film, and also documentary theory and history.
The 2013 Berlin SCSMI Conference Program is now available through the conference link on the SCSMI website. Thanks are due to conference organizers Dr. Monika Suckfüll, Flavia Bleuel, and Diana […]
Responding to Art Shimamura’s suggestion that we note recent published work, I would add that it is especially useful for us to draw attention to our work when it appears […]
Terrence Malick has never made a film I didn’t like, so it is unsurprising that his most recent work, The Tree of Life (2011), struck my fancy. It has almost […]
There has been a lot of questionable talk about the rise of digital media and the future of cinema, predicting the death of indexicality, the loss of the referent, and the “post-photographic era,” for example. Well, digital cinema has arrived, and as far as I can tell, spectators are still taking digital images as photographic evidence, as is true in the case of the Academy Award-winning documentary film The Cove (2009).