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Author:   Alexa Weik von Mossner
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781771120029

ISBN 10:   1771120029
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   30 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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"""Ably orchestrated by Alexa Weik von Mossner, these essays provide a valuable introduction to studies of the affective and emotional dimensions of those animated, theatrical, and documentary films that focus on nature-human relationships. Placing a premium on theorizing these dimensions especially as such films are received by audiences, the volume can set the stage for future empirically oriented studies of such audience reception. It is well worth consideration for classroom use in environmental and film studies programs."" -- Bron Taylor, editor of 'Avatar and Nature Spirituality' (WLU Press, 2013) and author of 'Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future' (2009)"

Ably orchestrated by Alexa Weik von Mossner, these essays provide a valuable introduction to studies of the affective and emotional dimensions of those animated, theatrical, and documentary films that focus on nature-human relationships. Placing a premium on theorizing these dimensions especially as such films are received by audiences, the volume can set the stage for future empirically oriented studies of such audience reception. It is well worth consideration for classroom use in environmental and film studies programs. -- Bron Taylor, editor of 'Avatar and Nature Spirituality' (WLU Press, 2013) and author of 'Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future' (2009)

Ably orchestrated by Alexa Weik von Mossner, these essays provide a valuable introduction to studies of the affective and emotional dimensions of those animated, theatrical, and documentary films that focus on nature-human relationships. Placing a premium on theorizing these dimensions especially as such films are received by audiences, the volume can set the stage for future empirically oriented studies of such audience reception. It is well worth consideration for classroom use in environmental and film studies programs. --Bron Taylor, editor of Avatar and Nature Spirituality (WLU Press, 2013) and author of Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2009)

""Ably orchestrated by Alexa Weik von Mossner, these essays provide a valuable introduction to studies of the affective and emotional dimensions of those animated, theatrical, and documentary films that focus on nature-human relationships. Placing a premium on theorizing these dimensions especially as such films are received by audiences, the volume can set the stage for future empirically oriented studies of such audience reception. It is well worth consideration for classroom use in environmental and film studies programs."" -- Bron Taylor, editor of 'Avatar and Nature Spirituality' (WLU Press, 2013) and author of 'Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future' (2009)

Author Information

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).

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