Carl Plantinga is a professor of film and media at Calvin College, where he has taught since 2000.

Plantinga’s authored books include Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement; Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience; and Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film. He also co-edited The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film and Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion. Plantinga is the past president of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and is also an editorial board member of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.

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Creativity generates art. How to discern the creative process in order to inform the nature of art? Conversely, how to discern art in order to inform the nature of the...

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Can Art Probe Creativity?

Episode 09

Season 20

26:47

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What is the nature of art? What makes something “art”, and why should we value it? What are aesthetics and art theory? How is the philosophy of art (or aesthetics)...

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What is Philosophy of the Arts?

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1:25:26

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Creativity generates art. How can art discern or inform the nature of creativity? Conversely, how can discerning or informing art elucidate the creative process?

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Arts and the Creative Process

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7 videos

41:10

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Why are the arts so deeply embedded in religious settings and services? How do the arts work in religious spaces and activities? What are differences among the arts, say...

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Arts and Religious Practice (Liturgy)

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7 videos

1:03:37

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What can we learn about art by studying perception, cognition, emotion? And what can we learn about perception, cognition, emotion by studying art?

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How Does Art Affect Perception, Cognition, Emotion?

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42:24

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Carl Plantinga

Arthur H. DeKruyter Chair of Communication, Calvin College

Episodes

Can Art Probe Creativity?

Topic Series

What is Philosophy of the Arts?

Arts and the Creative Process

Arts and Religious Practice (Liturgy)

How Does Art Affect Perception, Cognition, Emotion?

Books

Screen Stories and Moral Understanding: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Alternative Realities (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture)

Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction film

SCREEN STORIES P: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement

Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience

Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion