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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154964403321

Titolo

Moving Environments : Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film / / edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ontario : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , [2014]

Beaconsfield, Quebec : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2014

ISBN

9781771120029

1771120029

9781771120036

1771120037

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Environmental humanities series

Classificazione

EC 1879

Disciplina

791.43/66

Soggetti

Ecocriticism

Human ecology in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Social aspects

Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

General and theoretical considerations -- Anthropomorphism and the non-human in documentary film -- The effects and affects of animation -- The affect of place and time.

Sommario/riassunto

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. --Provided by publisher.