Faculty - Publications by Carl Plantinga

Authored Books

  • 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).

Edited Books

  • 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)

Book Chapters

  • “Frame Shifters: Surprise Endings and Spectator Imagination in The Twilight Zone,” in The Philosophy of The Twilight Zone, eds. Noël Carroll and Lester Hunt (London: Blackwell, 2009).
  • "The Philosophy of Errol Morris,” in Rouch, Morris, McElwee: Essays on the Contemporary Documentary, ed. Bill Rothman, (SUNY Press, 2009)
  • “The 1980s and American Documentary,” in Linda Ruth Williams and Michael Hammond, eds., American Cinema Since 1960 (McGraw-Hill, 2006) 
  • "The Limits of Appropriation: Subjectivist Accounts of the Fiction/Nonfiction Film Dictinction." Moving Images, Culture and the Mind. Ed. Ib Bondebjerg (University of Luton Press, 2000).
  • "American Documentary in the 1980s" in A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989, by Stephen Prince. Vol. 10 of the History of American Cinema series (New York: Scribners, 1999).
  • "The Scene of Empathy and the Human Face on Film." Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion, eds. Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
  • "Notes on Spectator Emotion and Ideological Film Criticism" in Film Theory and Philosophy. Eds. Richard Allen and Murray Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
  • "Moving Pictures and the Rhetoric of Nonfiction: Two Approaches" In Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies. Eds. David Bordwell and Noël Carroll (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996).

Articles in Professional Journals

  • “Disgusted at the Movies: An Essay on Film and Emotion,” Film Studies: An International Review, 8 (Summer 2006), 81-92.
  • “What a Documentary Is, After All,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Arts Criticism, 63, 2 (Spring 2005), 105-117.
  • "Spectacles of Death: Clint Eastwood and Violence in Unforgiven," Cinema Journal, 37, 2 (Winter 1998), 65-83.
  • "Film Theory and Aesthetics: Notes on a Schism," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 51, 3 (Summer 1993), 445-454.
  • "Roger and History and Irony and Me," Michigan Academician, 24, 2 (Spring 1992), 511-520.