Carl R. Plantinga has been Professor of Film and Media at Calvin College since 2000. Professor at Hollins University from 1987 to 1999, where he was founding director of the program to graduate in Film Screenwriting and Film Studies. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where his thesis advisor was David Bordwell. He has been widely published and convened to give lectures on documentary theory and history, from a critical realist perspective that presents an alternative to postmodernist and poststructuralist theories on documentary. Author of Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience (2009) and co-editor (with Greg M. Smith) of Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (1999). Plantinga also publishes and lectures on the philosophy of film, and is co-editor (with Paisley Livingston) of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (2009). He was president of the Society for Cognitive Studies on the Moving Image, and is currently associate editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.