Murray Smith

Murray Smith is Professor of Film and co-director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent, and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values for 201718. He was President of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image from 201417. He has published widely on film, art, and aesthetics. In addition to the recent Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film (Oxford, 2017), his publications include Engaging...See more

Murray Smith is Professor of Film and co-director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent, and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values for 201718. He was President of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image from 201417. He has published widely on film, art, and aesthetics. In addition to the recent Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film (Oxford, 2017), his publications include Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Clarendon); Trainspotting (BFI); Film Theory and Philosophy (co-edited with Richard Allen) (Clarendon); Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (co-edited with Steve Neale) (Routledge); and Thinking through Cinema (co-edited with Tom Wartenberg) (Blackwell). See less