• Home
  • About us
  • Forum
  • Conference
  • Membership
  • News
  • Resources
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About us
  • Forum
  • Conference
  • Membership
  • News
  • Resources

Forum

The purpose of this Forum is to share ideas and prompt discussion. Comments are encouraged. For simple announcements, like calls for papers or job openings, please use a group email or our Facebook page. (Links below).

Non-members are welcome to subscribe to receive email notifications of new posts, but only members can post and comment. Members automatically receive email notification of new posts, unless they opt out.

— Post a message on the Forum. (Members only.)
— Send an email announcement to the Society.
— Subscribe to email notification of new posts. (Non-members are welcome to subscribe.)
— Join the Society’s Facebook group and see recent posts.
— Contact the site manager.
— For other membership options, visit our Membership page.

18Dec

Media Mutations 8 – A Cognitive Approach to TV Series

by Murray Smith in Forum | 0 Comment
  A reminder of the deadline (5 January) for submissions coming up for this conference, co-sponsored by SCSMI.  Further details below. Christmas greetings – Murray Call for Papers: Media Mutations 8 […]
Read More
13Dec

Fascination of Film Violence

by Henry Bacon in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear SCSMI-colleagues, I have discussed the fascination of film violence with many of you as I was writing my article “Regardign violence” on this theme for the Projections issued edited […]
Read More
Article Announcement: “What would Jaws do? The tyranny of film and the relationship between gaze and higher-level narrative film comprehension”
09Dec

Article Announcement: “What would Jaws do? The tyranny of film and the relationship between gaze and higher-level narrative film comprehension”

by Lester Loschky in Forum | 0 Comment
  Dear Colleagues, our first paper showing evidence of what we’re calling “the tyranny of film” has recently been published in PLoS ONE, and we thought we would let members […]
Read More
Book announcement: The Antihero in American Television
06Dec

Book announcement: The Antihero in American Television

by Margrethe Bruun Vaage in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear all I’m pleased to announce that my monograph has now been published! Margrethe Bruun Vaage: The Antihero in American Television (Routledge, 2016) The antihero prevails in recent American drama television […]
Read More
Film, Art and the Third Culture
08Nov

Film, Art and the Third Culture

by Murray Smith in Forum | 0 Comment
In case anyone is in or near my neighbourhood on 18 November...
Read More
29Oct

Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cognitive Approaches

by Kathrin Fahlenbrach in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear SCSMI-colleagues, I’m happy to announce the recent publication of the book “Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cognitive Approaches”, edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, London/New York: Routledge. Link: […]
Read More

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Recent Posts

  • Conference CfP: Analytic Aesthetics and Film Studies
  • 2018 Conference Registration Open
  • New Projections-related post on the Berghahn blog
  • Projections: new submission formats
  • Third International Conference Colour in Film in London, March 19 to 21, 2018
  • Projections update
  • Literary Universals + Film, Art, and the Third Culture – New York, Saturday 6 January
  • Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities – deadline update
  • Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities – University of Kent, 1-4 July, 2018
  • SCSMI 2018, Dec. 22 deadline
  • BSA Synergy Conference Scheme
  • Cinema Production position at Virginia Tech
  • Stephen Prince elected SCSMI president
  • Two Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions at the University of North Carolina Wilmington

Useful Links

  • Cinemetrics
  • Confessions of an Aca-Fan
  • Observations on Film Art
  • Senses of Cinema, Links Page
  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies
  • University Film and Video Association

Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image

An interdisciplinary organization made up of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, neurophysiological, and evolutionary-psychological approaches to the analysis of film and other moving-image media.

Navigation

  • SCSMI Home
  • Post to Forum
  • SCSMI YouTube channel
  • Twitter/X
  • Facebook group
  • Contact Webmaster
  • Call for Papers

Members

  • Log In
  • Projections Online
  • Join SCSMI / Renew
  • Check Membership Status
© SOCIETY FOR COGNITIVE STUDIES OF THE MOVING IMAGE