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Carl Plantinga Senior researcher, Calvin University, USA carl.plantinga@calvin.edu

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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.

Contributor Notes

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

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  • Couch, Rosie. 2021a. “‘I Am Not the Girl I Used to Be’: Remembering the Femme Fatale in The Girl on the Train.” Clues: A Journal of Detection 39 (1): 2425.

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  • Couch, Rosie. 2021b. “The ‘Gone Girl Effect’: ‘Girling’ The Femme Fatale in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.” In Contemporary Crime Fiction, ed. Charlotte Beyer, 100122. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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  • Tan, Ed. 1996. Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film: Film as an Emotion Machine. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

  • Zunshine, Lisa. 2012. Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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  • Bordwell, David. 1985. Narration in the Fiction Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

  • Hven, Steffen. 2017. Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

  • Hjort, Mette. 2019. “The Public Value of Film: Moving Images, Health, and Well-Being.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 9 (1): 723. https://doi.org/10.1386/jsca.9.1.7_1

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  • Hjort, Mette. 2022. “The Benefits of Genre: Feel-Good Films as a Path to Health and Well-Being.” In A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value, ed. Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli, 558575. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

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  • Hjort, Mette, and Ted Nannicelli, eds. 2022. A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Horeck, Tanya, and Susan Berridge. 2024. “The Role of the Intimacy Coordinator: New Depictions of Sex and Consent in UK Television Culture.” Anglia Ruskin Research Online (ARRO). Report. https://doi.org/10.25411/aru.25305634.v2.

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