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Malcolm Turvey
Abstract
This article questions the priority that Carl Plantinga accords to the viewer's emotions in his theory of the rhetorical power of screen stories, and makes the case that reason, in the sense of practical reasoning, plays just as important a role as emotion in our ethical response to such fictions. Practical reasoning is the form of reasoning concerned with the actions of agents and what they should do in specific situations. The protagonists of screen stories often engage in practical reasoning, articulating and deliberating about the reasons for their actions, and secondary characters around them regularly question their reasons. In this way, these stories prompt us to understand and question their reasons too and thereby to engage in practical reasoning, a species of which is moral reasoning. Screen stories also often stage a confrontation between divergent ethical perspectives and ask audiences to reflect about which one is more morally compelling.
Mirror Neurons and Film Studies
A Cautionary Tale from a Serious Pessimist
Malcolm Turvey
Abstract
This article surveys some of the major criticisms of mirror neuron explanations of human behavior within neuroscience and philosophy of mind. It then shows how these criticisms pertain to the recent application of mirror neuron research to account for some of our responses to movies, particularly our empathic response to film characters and our putative simulation of anthropomorphic camera movements. It focuses especially on the “egocentric” conception of the film viewer that mirror neuron research appears to license. In doing so, it develops a position called “serious pessimism” about the potential contribution of neuroscience to the study of film and art by building upon the “moderate pessimism” recently proposed by philosopher David Davies. It also offers some methodological recommendations for how film scholars should engage with the sciences.
In Memoriam: Stephen Prince
(1955–2020)
Carl Plantinga and Malcolm Turvey
Friends and colleagues of Stephen Prince were shocked and saddened to learn of his death at the age of sixty-five on 30 December 2020 in Blacksburg, Virginia, after a brief illness. Steve was a good friend to many, a prolific scholar with a deep love of cinema, a beloved teacher, a trusted and valued colleague, and a generous mentor to younger scholars.
Malcolm Turvey, Mette Hjort, Julian Hanich, and Christopher T. Gonzalez
ELEGY FOR THEORY by D.N. RODOWICK
Malcolm Turvey
COGNITIVE MEDIA THEORY by TED NANNICELLI AND PAUL TABERHAM (EDS.)
Mette Hjort
THE FORMS OF THE AFFECTS by EUGENIE BRINKEMA
Julian Hanich
MEX-CINÉ: MEXICAN FILMMAKING, PRODUCTION, AND CONSUMPTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
Christopher T. Gonzalez
Jeffrey M. Zacks, Trevor Ponech, Jane Stadler, and Malcolm Turvey
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.
Paul Messaris, Cynthia Freeland, Sheena Rogers, Malcolm Turvey, Greg M. Smith, Daniel T. Levin, Alicia M. Hymel, and Tim J. Smith
CONTINUITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Paul Messaris
CONTINUITY, NARRATIVE, AND CROSS-MODAL CUING OF ATTENTION
Cynthia Freeland
AUTEUR OF ATTENTION: THE FILMMAKER AS COGNITIVE SCIENTIST
Sheena Rogers
THE CONTINUITY OF NARRATIVE COMPREHENSION
Malcolm Turvey
CONTINUITY IS NOT CONTINUOUS
Greg M. Smith
MAKING THE CASE FOR NONPREDICTIVE CONTINUITY PERCEPTION
Daniel T. Levin and Alicia M. Hymel
EXTENDING ATOCC: A REPLY
Tim J. Smith