Writing
NEW ARTICLE: “Screening the Port City: Poetics and Promotions”
This article in Genre addresses representations of port cities on film. It was co-authored with colleagues in architecture and cinema studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. https://read.dukeupress.edu/genre/article-abstract/55/2/85/319975/Screening-the-Port-City-Poetics-and-Promotions
SPECIAL ISSUE: Media and Fakery
Celia Lam, Filippo Gilardi and myself have published a Special Issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies on the topic of “Media and Fakery,” including fake news, deepfakes, and all manner of digital fabulation: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccon20/36/3
NEW BOOK: Cognitive Film and Media Ethics
My newest monograph, Cognitive Film and Media Ethics, is out now with Oxford University Press. More information here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cognitive-film-and-media-ethics-9780197552896 Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ethics. This book extends past works in cognitive media studies to answer normative… Read more
NEW ARTICLE: “Picturing the Autobiographical Imagination: Emotion, Memory and Metacognition in Inside Out”
For those of you who enjoy the movie “Inside Out,” here’s an article I just published in Film-Philosophy about its unique animation of memory, emotion and imagination. The film requests an effortful thinking through of their relations, and recognises a similar effortfulness in growing up, thinking through our own thoughts and a developing metacognition as… Read more
NEW ARTICLES: “Criminals at Play: Oedipus, Rope, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead” and “Benign Violations in the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy”
My two latest articles are now online. “Criminals at Play: Oedipus, Rope, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead,” is published in Culture, Theory and Critique and contrasts different acts of storytelling – theatre, film and games – as spaces of narrative play. The article is included in Celia Lam and Melissa Brown’s upcoming “Playful Encounters” special issue of… Read more