Martin P. Rossouw is head of the Department Art History and Image Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa, where he teaches as senior lecturer in Film and Visual Media. His most recent essay publications appear in Short Film Studies, Academic Quarter, Image & Text and New Review of Film and Television Studies. His first monograph, Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate (2021), was recently published in Brill’s longstanding Value Inquiry Book Series. And with Julian Hanich from the University of Groningen, he is currently co-editing an edited volume under contract at the University of California Press, What Film is Good For, which will bring together over thirty essays from some of the best-known film scholars worldwide, and which is scheduled for publication by Spring 2023.

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Book: Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate (Brill, 2021). Value Inquiry Book Series.

2021. Watchmen, From Co-Mix to Remix. Literature/Film Quarterly 49 (4): online. 

2021. (with Johanet Kriel-de Klerk) ‘Strangely comforted’: The rhetoric of sincerity in Kirsten Lepore’s Hi Stranger. Short Film Studies 11 (2), 199-209.

2021. The Lyric Video as Moving Concrete Poetry, Or: The Pleasures of Eye-Tennis with Tay-Tay. In Media Res, April 28 [online]. 

2021. Mr K meets Modern Times: Intertextual Closure in La Vis. Short Film Studies 11 (1), 31-35. 

2020. Adaptation and Audio-Visual Apophasis in Bullet in the Brain. Short Film Studies 10 (2): 215-218.

2019. From Wander to Wonder: Walking – and ‘Walking-With’ – in Terrence Malick’s Contemplative Cinema. Akademisk Kvarter | Academic Quarter, 18: 41-55.

2019. Left-Right Dynamics of Staging and Composition in Class 15. Short Film Studies 9 (1): 101-104.

2018. Zepo as Metapicture of Its Making. Short Film Studies 8 (1): 29-32.

2017. There’s Something About Malick: Film-Philosophy, Contemplative Style, and Ethics of Transformation. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 15 (3): 279-298.

2017. Of Metaphor and Machine: Some Nuts and Bolts Behind Modern Times as Philosophy. Image & Text, 30: 38-72.

2013. Loyalty, Women and ‘Business’: Ideological Hyper-Values in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Acta Academica, 45(4): 84-118.

• Philosophy of Film / Film as Philosophy
• Image and Medium
• Intermediality and Remediation
• Rhetoric
• Short Film / Short-Form Media

• FVMA6800: Approaches to the Moving Image
• FVMR6800: Research Report Aligned with Studio Research
• HKGK4808: Contemporary South African Art Contexts
• HKWS4808: Recent Developments in Visual Art and Culture
• HKGK3728  Envisioning Knowledge: Image and Imagination 
• TIDI7920: Celebrating the Divine