Cognition and the Arts (Cambridge University Press)
Timothy Justus
I’m writing to let you know that my book, Cognition and the Arts: From Naturalized Aesthetics to the Cognitive Humanities, has been published by Cambridge University Press. It is available now through Cambridge Core with the print edition forthcoming in October. I am enclosing a flyer promoting the book including a 20 per cent discount on the hardcover.
Several SCSMI colleagues helped me along the way with advice and feedback, including Todd Berliner, Wyatt Moss-Wellington, and Ted Nannicelli. Thank you!
Contents
Prologue
1. Conceptualizing cognition and the arts
2. Embodiment and cognitive extension in art and music
3. The predictive mind in literature
4. The affective mind and cinematic expression
5. Historicizing cognition and the arts
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Kind regards,
Timothy
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Timothy Justus, Ph.D.
Professor of Cognitive Science
Pitzer College (The Claremont Colleges)
https://www.pitzer.edu/timothy-justus
Alaina Schempp
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Karen Pearlman
- In-depth consideration of filmmaker Shirley Clarke’s revolutionary creative work
- A novel feminist approach to authorship
- A creative practice and distributed cognition framework suitable for application to the study of other films and filmmakers
- Individual chapters useful for teaching in under-theorised areas such as dancefilm and film editing
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JEder
Dear Karen and Timothy, congratulations on your books!
And dear Alaina, thank you for your question in the SCSMI round, that’s a wonderful idea!
I hadn't heard about Karen's book yet, and I'm looking forward to further news.
I would like to join the book club with two new publications, both of which are available for download in open access (and as print editions, of course):
Eder, Jens. 2025. Characters in Film and Other Media. Theory, Analysis, Interpretation. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0283
Characters are central to the creation and experience of films and other media. Their cultural significance is profound, but they also raise a wide range of questions. This book provides a comprehensive theory that guides the analysis and interpretation of characters across four dimensions: as represented beings with physical, psychological, and social characteristics; as artefacts with aesthetic structures; as meaningful symbols; and as symptoms of socio-cultural origins and effects. Integrating insights from film, media, and literary studies as well as philosophy, psychology and sociology, the book offers a broad range of approaches for understanding characters and the emotional responses they evoke.
Eder, Jens, Britta Hartmann, and Chris Tedjasukmana. 2025. Understanding Video Activism on Social Media. Bristol: Intellect. https://www.intellectbooks.com/understanding-video-activism-on-social-media
What political power do videos have on social media? And how can democratic activists on the Internet assert themselves against propaganda, disinformation and the entertainment industry? Understanding video activism is becoming ever more important at a time when moving images on platforms are increasingly influencing political processes.
It is pure coincidence that the two books were published almost simultaneously this summer.
The first is the result of many years of work, and I would imagine that it is the more fitting one for the field of cognitive media studies.
If anyone would like to review it, I would of course be delighted.
All the best,
Jens
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Prof. Dr. Jens Eder
Professor of Dramaturgy and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Media
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11, Room 1320
14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
Email: j.e...@filmuniversitaet.de
Research Group: Film as a Catalyst of Social Transformation, https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/forschung-transfer/forschung/projekte/projektseite/detail/film-als-katalysator-sozialer-transformation
Selected Publications:
Eder, Jens. 2025. Characters in Film and Other Media. Theory, Analysis, Interpretation. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0283
Eder, Jens, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana. 2025. Understanding Video Activism On Social Media. Bristol: Intellect. https://www.intellectbooks.com/understanding-video-activism-on-social-media
Eder, Jens. 2023. „Political Impact – On the Societal Vibrancy of Film”. What Film Is Good For. On the Values of Spectatorship, edited by Julian Hanich und Martin P. Rossouw, 102-114. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Eder, Jens and Chris Tedjasukmana. 2020. „Video Activism on the Social Web”. In: Radical Film Cultures: Networks, Organisations, Activists, ed. by Steve Presence, Mike Wayne and Jack Newsinger. New York: Routledge.
