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This update is my first in two years, having foregone my annual update in the 2022 volume to give as much space as possible to our authors and reviewers. The year 2022 began with a special issue, “The Neuroscience of Film,” guest edited by Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra, followed by two issues comprising original research articles and book reviews by authors based in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States. I am heartened by both the research and the geographical inclusivity of our journal and our society. I'm grateful to all three of our associate editors for their efforts, and I wish to offer special thanks to Aaron Taylor for his work as book review editor—a job he has taken up with a particular focus on outreach to colleagues who share the interests of the journal and society but have not yet attended a conference, become a member, or submitted a manuscript. Building connections within and across disciplines is crucial to the continued success of SCSMI and Projections, so please: do what you can to spread the word by circulating calls, renewing your institution's subscription, and the like.

This update is my first in two years, having foregone my annual update in the 2022 volume to give as much space as possible to our authors and reviewers. The year 2022 began with a special issue, “The Neuroscience of Film,” guest edited by Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra, followed by two issues comprising original research articles and book reviews by authors based in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States. I am heartened by both the research and the geographical inclusivity of our journal and our society. I'm grateful to all three of our associate editors for their efforts, and I wish to offer special thanks to Aaron Taylor for his work as book review editor—a job he has taken up with a particular focus on outreach to colleagues who share the interests of the journal and society but have not yet attended a conference, become a member, or submitted a manuscript. Building connections within and across disciplines is crucial to the continued success of SCSMI and Projections, so please: do what you can to spread the word by circulating calls, renewing your institution's subscription, and the like.

On the topic of associate editors: This is my first opportunity to welcome Margrethe Bruun Vaage as a new associate editor of Projections. Margrethe, who began last year, is senior lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Kent, author of The Antihero in American Television (2016), and a member of the board of directors of SCSMI. Her new role, which parallels that of Tim Smith, ensures that Projections has the capacity to give all submissions a blind editorial screening that serves as the basis of a decision about whether to proceed with external, double-blind peer review. Margrethe also brings a wealth of insight from her role on SCSMI's Diversity Committee. She is an enormous asset to the editorial team, and I am thrilled to welcome her.

Another significant development for Projections is the inauguration of the Stephen Prince Memorial Essay Prize—a prize that we have developed in memory of a cherished member of our community who passed away in 2020. As described in the description of the Prize, Stephen was both the editor of Projections and president of SCSMI, as well as the president of the Society for Cinema Studies. The Prize is a small token of our enormous appreciation for Stephen's contributions to the profession over the years. Details about the Prize can be found in the backmatter of this issue. Again, please distribute the call and information widely across your networks.

Sadly, this issue concludes with a remembrance of another long-standing, much-loved member of SCSMI, Henry Bacon, who recently passed away. A polymath who wrote books on both film violence and the history of opera, as well as a popular teacher and wise interlocuter, Henry is already deeply missed. I'm grateful to Joe Kickasola for offering to write a tribute to Henry—one that moved more than one member of the editorial team to tears.

Though it is no consolation in the wake of our loss of loved colleagues, the grief that is shared across our membership is also a reminder of what a tight-knit group we are—something that is uncommon as far as scholarly societies go, and, I think, pretty special. On that note, I'd like to extend my thanks to all the individuals who served as referees for Projections over the past two years. The list of names and institutional affiliations is, I believe, extraordinary for a relatively small society and journal likes ours. I am deeply grateful for the collegiality and commitment to SCSMI and Projections that these individuals have offered by serving as referees.

  • Richard Allen, City University of Hong Kong

  • Martina Ardizzi, University of Parma

  • Daniel Barratt, Copenhagen Business School

  • Anne Bartsch, University of Leipzig

  • John Bateman, Bremen University

  • Matthew Bezdek, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Cynthia Cabañas, Birkbeck, University of London

  • Fausto Caruana, Italian National Research Council

  • Mathias Clasen, Aarhus University

  • Adriana Clavel-Vazquez, University of Oxford

  • Filippo Contesi, University of Barcelona

  • Antoine Coutrot, French National Centre for Scientific Research

  • James E. Cutting, Cornell University

  • Adriano D'Aloia, University of Bergamo

  • Lucy Fife Donaldson, University of St. Andrews

  • A.W. Eaton, University of Illinois Chicago

  • Allison Eden, Michigan State University

  • Jens Eder, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

  • Dirk Eitzen, Franklin and Marshall College

  • Dan Flory, Montana State University

  • Charles Foreceville, University of Amsterdam

  • Manuel García-Carpintero, University of Barcelona

  • Alexander Gerner, University of Lisbon

  • Andreas Gregersen, University of Copenhagen

  • Matthew Grizzard, The Ohio State University

  • Torben Grodal, University of Copenhagen

  • Richard Grusin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  • Julian Hanich, University of Groningen

  • Patrick Colm Hogan, University of Connecticut

  • Steffan Hven, The Free University of Berlin

  • Qihao Ji, Marist College

  • Patrick Keating, Trinity University

  • James Kilner, University College London

  • Peter Krämer, De Montfort University

  • Paisley Livingston, Uppsala University

  • Joseph P. Magliano, Georgia State University

  • Francesco Parisi, University of Messina

  • Karen Pearlman, Macquarie University

  • Héctor J. Pérez, Polytechnic University of Valencia

  • Maria Poulaki, University of Surrey

  • Nick Redfern, Independent Scholar

  • Rainer Reisenzein, University of Greifswald

  • Sheena Rogers, James Madison University

  • Paolo Russo, Oxford Brookes University

  • Rikke Schubart, University of Southern Denmark

  • Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin—Madison

  • Tim J. Smith, Birkbeck, University of London

  • Antonio Somaini, New Sorbonne University Paris III

  • Jane Stadler, University of Queensland

  • Paul Taberham, Arts University Bournemouth

  • Ed Tan, University of Amsterdam

  • Vera Tobin, Case Western Reserve University

  • Chiao-I Tseng, University of Bremen

  • Yuri Tsivian, University of Chicago

  • Eduardo Urios-Aparisi, University of Connecticut

  • Margrethe Bruun Vaage, University of Kent

  • Janina Wildfeuer, University of Groningen

  • Steven Willemsen, University of Groningen

  • Hannah C. Wojciehowski, University of Texas at Austin

  • Jeffrey Zacks, Washington University in St. Louis

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