Carl Plantinga is a professor of film and media at Calvin College, where he has taught since 2000. Plantinga’s academic interests include spectatorship from ethical, psychological, and cultural perspectives; film and media theory; documentary film and media; and the philosophy of film and art.

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.