Dr. Carl Plantinga | Source | Film and Media Research Fellow at Calvin University
Dr. Carl Plantinga
Dr. Carl is Professor of Film and Media Calvin College who quips students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as Christ’s agents of renewal in the world. He is skilled in film and media theory, documentaries, philosophy of film and art, and communication.
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The academy tends to favor moral inspiration over moral challenge.
These movies have the capacity to teach us something and to alter our responses. That's what conflict does.
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[Nicholas Goldberg] What Oscars tell us about the world
Just what do the Academy Awards tell us about the world we live in? I began thinking about this after I was contacted by Carl Plantinga, a research fellow and professor of film and media studies at Calvin University in Michigan. Plantinga was pushing a theory that, for better or worse, Oscars for best picture tend to honor films with simple, straightforward, morally clear messages and are less likely to go to morally...
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Calvin University
Film and Media Research Fellow