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Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film
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Paperback. Editor(s): Mossner, Alexa Weik von. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
439 g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771120029
SKU
V9781771120029
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99-15
About Weik A
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).
Reviews for Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film
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 ... Read more