A01=Carl Plantinga
Author_Carl Plantinga
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cognitive film studies
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film theory
forthcoming
media psychology
moral imagination
philosophy of aesthetics
screen narrative
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- ISBN 9781399563468
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book distinguishes between 'smooth' and 'generative' engagement to show how film form and content can greatly impact the film viewer’s embodied imagination. Drawing from notable scholarship in film and media studies, aesthetics and media psychology, the book shows how these disciplines approach similar issues from varied perspectives.
It develops a model of narrative engagement and its subtypes, showing how these can account for the moral imagination in relation to character engagement, the medium and its characteristics, film form, emotion, the 'feel-good' film and rough hero narratives. The book ends with a call to viewers, educators and institutions to find ways to encourage active moral imagining in engagement with films.
Professor Carl Plantinga is Senior Research Fellow at Calvin University. He is the author of several books, including Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (1997, Schuler Books), Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience (2009, University of California Press), Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (2018, OUP) and Screen Stories and Moral Understanding (2023, OUP). He is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (2008, Routledge).
