A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value. Группа авторов

and communication policy. She is the author of Creativity, Culture, and Commerce: Producing Australian Children’s Television with Public Value (Intellect 2015), Producing Children’s Television in the On-Demand Age (Intellect 2020) and multiple journal articles and book chapters.Potter is chief investigator (with Amanda Lotz and Kevin Sanson) on the Australian Research Council Discovery project (2021–2023) “Making Australian Television in the 21st Century.” This project investigates the intertwined implications of non-Australian ownership, technological adjustments, policy changes, and support adjustments enacted since the mid-2000s that have challenged the making of “Australian” television.

      Willemien Sanders is a lecturer at the department of media and culture studies and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University. She also conducts research at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, documentary film and non-fiction, film and television production, and digital humanities/data studies with a focus on questions of ethics, production cultures, and gender. She is currently a co-chair of the Media Production Analysis Working Group of International Association for Media and Communication Research. She is also an avid traveler.

Kaia Scott holds a PhD in film and moving image studies from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Her dissertation, Picturing the Damaged Mind: Film and Techniques of Visualization in the Modernization of World War II Military Psychiatry is a critical history of the role of media in the modernization of the United States military’s psychiatry program during World War II. She specializes in institutional visual culture and is a contributing author to Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex.

      Khatereh Sheibani is a scholar, author, and curator of Iranian cinema and Persian literature and culture. She has established multiple courses in Persian studies (language, literature, and culture) at York University, where she is working as a lecturer. Sheibani completed her doctorate degree in comparative literature and film studies at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2007. Her book entitled The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity, and Film after the Revolution was published in November 2011 by I. B. Tauris, United Kingdom. She has co-edited a special issue of Iran Namag on Abbas Kiarostami (University of Toronto Press 2018). Sheibani has written articles on modern Persian literature, Iranian cinema and Middle Eastern cinemas in literary and film anthologies and journals, such as Iranian Studies and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She is collaborating with Iran Namag for a special issue on radio to be published in 2022. She has written two novels (in Persian) so far. The first novel titled Hotel Iran will be published in 2021 by Nashr-e Ameh in Tehran. Her second novel, Blue Bird Café is going to be published in Europe in 2021. Sheibani was consulted and interviewed on issues regarding Iranian cinema by broadcasting services and journals such as CBC, PRI, and the New York Times. She is currently working on a book-length project on gender representation in Iranian cinema.

      Dr. Meryl Shriver-Rice is a media anthropologist and environmental archaeologist, and director of environmental media at the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami. She developed and teaches for the Master’s of Environment, Media, and Culture program and is a founding editor (with Hunter Vaughan) of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press).

      Robert Sinnerbrink is associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of New Philosophies of Film (Second Edition): An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking (Bloomsbury 2021), Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2019), Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film (Routledge 2016), New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images (Continuum/Bloomsbury 2011), and Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen 2007, Routledge 2014). He has edited two books (Emotion, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience (Berghahn Books 2021) and Critique Today (Brill 2006)), and is a member of the editorial boards of Film-Philosophy, Film and Philosophy, and Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind.

      Professor Jane Stadler holds an honorary appointment in film and media studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. She led a collaborative Australian Research Council project on landscape and location in Australian cinema, literature, and theater (2011–2014) and co-authored Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives (2016). She is author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics (2008) and co-author of Screen Media (2009) and Media and Society (2016). Her philosophically informed screen media research focuses on ethics, aesthetics, and the audience’s affective responses, drawing on phenomenological and cognitivist approaches.

      Professor John Sutton works in the philosophy of mind, cognition, and action, in cognitive psychology, and in the interdisciplinary cognitive humanities. His main research topics are autobiographical and collaborative memory, embodied memory and skilled movement, distributed cognition, and cognitive history. He is a member of the ARC College of Experts, 2019–2021; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities; and was first President (2017–2019) of the the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Books and edited collections by Sutton include: Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to connectionism (Cambridge University Press 2007) and Johnson, Sutton, & Tribble (Eds.), Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind. (Routledge 2014).

      Dr. C. Claire Thomson is professor of cinema history and director of the MA in film studies at UCL (University College London). She is the author of Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen (Nordic Film Classics, University of Washington Press 2013) and Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935–1965 (Edinburgh University Press 2018), editor of Northern Constellations: New Readings in Nordic Cinema (Norvik 2006), co-editor of A History of Danish Cinema (Edinburgh University Press 2021), and Transnational Media Histories of the Nordic Model (Palgrave 2023). Her research interests include documentary and public information film, short films, unrealized films, and the cinema of Carl Theodor Dreyer.

      Dr. Pia Tikka is a professional filmmaker and EU Mobilitas Pluss research professor at the Baltic Film, Media, and Arts School, Tallinn University. She holds the honorary title of adjunct professor of new narrative media at the University of Lapland, and is a former director of Crucible Studio, department of media, Aalto University (2014–2017). She acted as a main investigator of neurocinematics in the research project aivoAALTO at the Aalto University (2010–2014) and founded her NeuroCine research group to study the neural basis of storytelling. She has published widely on the topics of enactive media, narrative complex systems, and neurocinematics. Her filmography includes international film productions as well as two feature films and interactive films she has directed. She is a fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and a member of the European Film Academy. Currently, she leads her Enactive Virtuality Lab associated with the MEDIT Centre of Excellence, Tallinn University.

Dr. Hunter Vaughan is a research fellow at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge. Dr. Vaughan is the author of Where Film Meets Philosophy (Columbia University Press 2013) and co-editor (with Tom Conley) of the Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory (Anthem Books: London 2018, 2020). His most recent book, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: the Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies (Columbia University Press 2019) offers an environmental counter-narrative to the history of mainstream film culture and explores the environmental ramifications of the recent transition to digital technologies and practices. He was a 2017 Rachel Carson Center Fellow and is a founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press). He is currently Principal Investigator, with Pietari Kääpä, on the AHRC-funded Global Green Media Network, and is also Principal Investigator with Anne Pasek, Nicole Starosielski, and Anjali Sugadev on the Internet Society Foundation’s Sustainability and the Subsea Telecommunication Cable Network project.

A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value General Introduction

      Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli

      This volume’s topic, the varied intersections and conjunctions of motion