Posts Categorised: Media
NEW ARTICLE: “Going to the movies in VR: Virtual reality cinemas as alternatives to in-person co-viewing”
Just published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, the results of our study into watching films in VR – with Kata Szita, Eugene Ch’ng and Xiaolin Sun. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103150
NEW CHAPTER: “On Reflecting on Reflections: The Moral Afterlife and Screen Studies”
I have a chapter in Carl Plantinga’s edited collection on Screen Stories and Moral Understanding titled “On Reflecting on Reflections: The Moral Afterlife and Screen Studies.” The chapter makes a case for extended periods of reflection as the quality that sets screen studies scholarship apart from other communities engaged with film and screen media, like… Read more
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 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
NEW BOOK: Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film
My first monograph, Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film, has just been released by Edinburgh University Press. Narrative Humanism outlines an approach for reading fictive texts focussed upon the politics of human kindness. The book asks how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questions the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent… Read more
NEW ARTICLE: “The emotional politics of limerence in romantic comedy films”
My latest article, published in the #Emotions special issue of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, looks at political romcom films. You can read it here: necsus-ejms.org/the-emotional-politics-of-limerence-in-romantic-comedy-films
NEW ARTICLES: On Domestic Ensemble Films
Two new articles published recently, for those interested in readings of domestic ensemble films: For Style journal, I wrote a piece on emotional contagion in the film Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.52.3.0302 For Sydney Studies in English, abject humanism in adaptations of Tom Perrotta novels, Election (Alexander Payne, 1999) and Little Children (Todd Field, 2006): https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/12638
NEW ARTICLE: “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater, and Sayles”
My latest article, “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater, and Sayles” is published in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind. You can find it here: http://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/projections/11/1/proj110104.xml
Australian Independent Media Inquiry
The Australian media inquiry is currently taking submissions until Oct 31 2011, and I urge everyone to get involved. Email media-inquiry@dbcde.gov.au to make your submission, or use NewsStand’s online form at http://www.newsstand.org.au/make-your-submission. You might consider the following points: 1. Media ownership: do we need to break up New Ltd’s 70% market share and cross-media control,… Read more