Alexa Weik Von Mossner

Moving Environments

Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film
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Produktbeschreibung

In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers' emotions. Emotion and affect are the basic mechanisms that connect us to our environment, shape our knowledge, and motivate our actions. Contributors explore how film represents and shapes human emotion in relation to different environments and what role time, place, and genre play in these affective processes. Individual essays resituate well-researched environmental films such as An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins by paying close attention to their emotionalizing strategies, and bring to our attention the affective qualities of films that have so far received little attention from ecocritics, such as Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man. The collection opens a new discursive space at the disciplinary intersection of film studies, affect studies, and a growing body of ecocritical scholarship. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students working in the field of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, but for everyone with an interest in our emotional responses to film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781771120029
• ISBN-10: 1771120029
• Artikelnr.: 40200737

Autorenporträt

Alexa Weik von Mossner is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. She has published widely on cosmopolitanism and various ecocritical issues in literature and film. Her most recent monograph is Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa
Weik von Mossner
2. Acknowledgements
3. Introduction: Ecocritical Film Studies and the Effects of Affect, Emotion,
and Cognition Alexa Weik von Mossner
4. PART I: General and Theoretical Considerations
5. 1. Emotion and Affect in Eco-films: Cognitive and Phenomenological
Approaches David Ingram
6. 2. Emotions of Consequence? Viewing Eco-documentaries from a Cognitivist
Perspective Alexa Weik von Mossner
7. 3. Irony and Contemporary Ecocinema: Theorizing a New Affective Paradigm
Nicole Seymour
8. PART II: Anthropomorphism and the Non-Human in Documentary Film
9. 4. On the ""Inexplicable Magic of Cinema"": Critical Anthropomorphism,
Emotion, and the Wildness of Wildlife Films Bart H. Welling
10. 5. Emotion, Argumentation, and Documentary Traditions: Darwin's Nightmare
and The Cove Belinda Smaill
11. 6. Documenting Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics at Sea Robin Murray
and Joseph L. Heumann
12. PART III: The Effects and Affects of Animation
13. 7. Animation, Realism, and the Genre of Nature David Whitley
14. 8. What Can a Film Do? Assessing Avatar's Global Affects Adrian Ivakhiv
15. 9. Animated Ecocinema and Affect: A Case Study of Pixar's UP Pat Brereton
16. PART IV: The Affect of Place and Time
17. 10. Moving Home: Documentary Film and Other Remediations of Post-Katrina
New Orleans Janet Walker
18. 11. Evoking Sympathy and Empathy: The Ecological Indian and Indigenous
Eco-activism Salma Monani
19. 12. Affect and Environment in Two Artists' Films and a Video Sean Cubitt
20. List of Contributors
21. Index