Carl Plantinga, professor of communication arts and sciences
cplantin@calvin.edu
616-526-8664
DeVos Communication Center 270B
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Educational background
- BA - Calvin College, philosophy, 1980
- MA - University of Iowa, communication (film), 1982
- PhD - University of Wisconsin-Madison, communication arts (film) and philosophy, 1989
Research/academic interests
- film, television, and spectator affect
- history of cinema
- documentary film and television history, criticism, and theory
- film and media theory
- film and philosophy
Selected publications
Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009)
Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, co-editor with Paisley Livingston (New York: Routledge, 2009)
Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion, co-editor with Greg M. Smith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
"American Documentary in the 1980s,” in Stephen Prince (author and compiler), A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 2000).
Professional affiliations
- President, "Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image"
- Associate Editor, "Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind"
- Member, Society for Cinema Studies
- Member, American Society for Aesthetics
Curriculum Vitae
Download Carl Plantinga's professional curriculum vitae.
