Projections! NEW Books up for review

[Alaina Schempp]

Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind publishes book reviews from a wide variety of recently published academic books, compendiums, and edited collections.

I'm seeking reviews for:

-Budhaditya Chattopadhyay. The Auditory Setting Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts. Edinburgh University Press, Mar 2023.

-Jens Eder. Characters in Film and Other Media. Theory, Analysis, Interpretation. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2025. 

-Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann, and Chris Tedjasukmana. Understanding Video Activism on Social Media. Bristol: Intellect, 2025.

-Dan Flory. African American Film Noir and Philosophy: Racing Shadow and Light. Dan Flory. Bloomsbury, Nov 2025.

-Antoine Gaudin and David Roche (eds). Sound and Space in Film: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

-Timothy Justus. Cognition and the Arts: From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities. Cambridge University Press, Oct 2025.

-Karen Pearlman. Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

-Thomas Wartenberg. Thoughtful Cinema: Illustrating Philosophy Through Film. Oxford University Press. Dec 2025.

For a comprehensive list of books up for review, check out this LIVE document. Feel free to email me with recent titles that you would like to review, and we can discuss it (a.p.s...@bham.ac.uk). 

Thanks! 🙂

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Dr Alaina Piro Schempp (she/her)    Hear my name 🔊

Assistant Professor of Film, Department of Film and Creative Writing

Associate Editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Berghahn)

Senior Tutor for the School of English, Drama and Creative Studies

College of Arts and Law

University of Birmingham

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