David Bordwell, Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, 512 pp., $32 (paperback), ISBN: 9780231206594.
Lucy Fischer. Emotion Pictures: Movies and Feelings. London and New York: Routledge, 2023, 198 pp., $128.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032037806.
Steffen Hven. Enacting the Worlds of Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, 216 pp., $80.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780197555101.
Timothy Corrigan, ed. Cinema, Media, & Human Flourishing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, 200 pp., $32.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780197624197.
Helen Hanson is associate professor of film history at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published widely on histories of Hollywood cinema, including Hollywood Heroines (2007) and Hollywood Soundscapes (2017). She is currently project lead for the major AHRC-funded “Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible” Project (2024–28). Email: h.m.hanson@exeter.ac.uk
Carl Plantinga is senior research fellow at Calvin University. Among his books are Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement (2018) and, as co-editor (with Greg M. Smith), Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (1999). Email: carl.plantinga@calvin.edu
Eleftheria Thanouli is professor in film theory at the School of Film at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of Post-classical Cinema (2009), Wag the Dog (2013), History and Film (2018), and A Guide to Post-classical Narration (2023). E-mail: Thanouli@film.auth.gr.
Mette Hjort is chair professor of film and media at The Education University of Hong Kong. She is the co-editor, with Ted Nannicelli, of A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value (Wiley-Blackwell 2022). E-mail: Mettehjort@eduhk.hk