“In both content and approach, Alternative Realities is revelatory in its exploration of the cinematic imagination and the ambiguities of realism and verisimilitude. It articulates cinema’s role in calling truths about our society to attention through the creation of realistic and fantastical worlds in screen stories that span documentary to science fiction.”
~Jane Stadler, the University of Queensland
"Plantinga gives us a unique, bold and incisive account of how movies blend reality and fantasy, conjoining soaring realms of the imagination with the empirical frames of everyday reality."
~Stephen Prince, author of Digital Visual Effects and Digital Cinema
"Plantinga demonstrates that... the shorter book format can... serve as an effective tool for introducing readers to significant philosophical and theoretical questions concerning realism, fantasy, and the cinema’s capacity for creating compelling alternative realities."
~Projections
