Irving Epstein is the Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Peace and Social Justice at Illinois Wesleyan University. In addition to Education, Affect, and Film, he is the author of Affect Theory and Comparative Education Discourseand the editor of Chinese Education: Problems, Policies and Prospects (1991), Recapturing the Personal (2007), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide (2007), and The Whole World is Texting: Youth Protest in the Information Age (2015). From 1988-1998, he served as an associate editor of the Comparative Education Review, and is an Emeritus member of the Scholars at Risk advisory board, an international network devoted to protecting scholars from persecution while engaging in academic freedom advocacy.
Education, Affect, and Film is a timely intervention in comparative and international education scholarship. * The Comparative Education Review * A masterful and highly original contribution to thinking about the intersection of comparative international education and film. Using the lens of affect theory, Epstein shows how the two fields together promote new insights into fundamental questions regarding the connections between education and the representation of social experience through film. * Diane M. Hoffman, Associate Professor, University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development, USA * An insightful critique of the parallels between CIE and film studies, as a modality to raise humankind’s level of consciousness in systematically addressing existential global problems filtered through the lens of affect theory, urging a nuanced take at the ephemeral relationships among humans, their societies and the planetary biodiverse ecosystems they inhabit. -- Florin Salajan, Professor, School of Education, North Dakota State University, USA