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Moving Environments : Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film /

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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weik von Mossner, Alexa (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. General and theoretical considerations. Emotion and affect in eco-films : cognitive and phenomenological approaches / David Ingram
  • Emotions of consequence? Viewing eco-documentaries from a cognitive perspective / Alexa Weik von Mossner
  • Irony and contemporary ecocinema : theorizing a new affective paradigm / Nicole Seymour. Anthropomorphism and the non-human in documentary film. On the "inexplicable magic of cinema" : critical anthropomorphism, emotion, and the wildness of wildlife films / Bart H. Welling
  • Emotion, argumentation, and documentary traditions : Darwin's nightmare and The cove / Belinda Smaill
  • Documenting animal rights and environmental ethics at sea / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann. Part III. The effects and affects of animation. Animation, realism, and the genre of nature / David Whitley
  • What can a film do? Assessing Avatar's global affects / Adrian Ivakhiv
  • Animated ecocinema and affect : a case study of Pixar's UP / Pat Brereton. Part IV. The affect of place and time. Moving home : documentary film and other remediations of post-Katrina New Orleans / Janet Walker
  • Evoking sympathy and empathy : the ecological Indian and indigenous eco-activism / Salma Monani
  • Affect and environment in two artists' films and a video / Sean Cubitt.