Martin P. Rossouw. Transformational Ethics of Film. Leiden: Brill, 2021, 316 pp., $150.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9789004459953.
Grant Tavinor. The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality. New York: Routledge, 2021, 163 pp., $160.00, ISBN: 9780367619251.
Rebecca A. Sheehan. American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 292 + xi pp., $41.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780190949716.
Deborah Walker-Morrison. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019, 272 pp., $77.00, ISBN 9781350157446.
Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Associate Professor in Media and Culture at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His books include Cognitive Film and Media Ethics (2021), Narrative Humanism (2019), and ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (2019). Moss-Wellington is also a progressive folk multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter with four studio albums: The Kinder We (2017), Sanitary Apocalypse (2014), Gen Y Irony Stole My Heart (2011) and The Supermarket and the Turncoat (2009).
Dooley Murphy recently received his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen, Department of Communication, where he wrote a monographic thesis exploring the form and function of VR art and entertainment. He has previously published, presented, and produced video essays on VR participant experience, the structure and process of playful media, and narrational and design strategies in interactive storytelling. E-mail: hello@dooleymurphy.com
Robert Sinnerbrink is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author of New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking (Bloomsbury, 2022), Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film (Routledge, 2016). Email: robert.sinnerbrink@mq.edu.au.
Dr. Kirsten Moana Thompson is Professor and Director of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. She teaches and writes on animation and color studies, as well as American and Pacific film and visual culture. She is the author of Animation and Advertising (co-edited with Malcolm Cook, 2019); Apocalyptic Dread: American Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium (2007); Crime Films: Investigating the Scene (2007), and Perspectives on German Cinema (co-edited with Terri Ginsberg, 1996). Email: thompski@seattleu.edu.