Gallese, Vittorio, and Michele Guerra. The Empathic Screen: Cinema and Neuroscience. Trans. Frances Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 272 pp., $45.00, ISBN: 9780198793533.
Rawls, Christina, Diana Neiva, and Steven S. Gouveia, eds. Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides. New York: Routledge, 2019, 389 pp., $160 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-138-35169-1.
Moss-Wellington, Wyatt. Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 256 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781474454322.
Perez, Gilberto. The Eloquent Screen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019, 448 pp., $29.95, ISBN: 978-0-8166-4133-8.
Jeffrey M. Zacks is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Professor of Radiology, Washington University in Saint Louis. He studies perception, navigation, and memory in the mind and brain, and has written about the cognitive neuroscience of film for both scientific and general audiences, including Flicker: Your Brain on Movies (Oxford, 2014). E-mail: jzacks@wustl.edu
Trevor Ponech is Associate Professor of English at McGill University. E-mail: trevor.ponech@mcgill.ca
Jane Stadler holds an Honorary appointment in Film and Media Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film and Ethics (2008) and co-author of Screen Media (2009), Imagined Landscapes (2016), and Media and Society (2016). E-mail: j.stadler@uq.edu.au
Malcolm Turvey is Sol Gittleman Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and Director of the Film & Media Studies Program at Tufts University. His most recent book is Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2019).