ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER

Moving Environments

MOVING ENVIRONMENTS
Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film

Edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner

Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2014

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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.

CONTENT

Introduction – Alexa Weik von Mossner

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

PART II: Anthropomorphism and the Non-Human in Documentary Film

  • On the “Inexplicable Magic of Cinema”: Critical Anthropomorphism, Emotion, and the Wildness of Wildlife Films – Bart Welling
  • Emotion and Political Environmental Documentary: Darwin’s Nightmare and The Cove –Belinda Smaill
  • Documenting Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics at Sea – Robin 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 Eco-cinema 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
  • (Re)presenting the Ecological Indian and Eco-Activism in Contemporary Native American Film – Salma Monani
  • Affect and Environment in Two Artists’ Films and a Video – Sean Cubitt

ACADEMIC REVIEWS

O’Dell-Chaib, Courtney. 2019. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. 13.3 (2019) 387-389

Schwarz, Heike. 2018. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Anglia 136 (1): 229-231.

Blasi, Gabriella. 2017. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Projections: The Journal for Movies and Minds 11 (2): 109-114.

Rust, Stephen. 2016. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 22 (4): 919-921.

Anson, April. 2016. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. University of Toronto Quarterly 85 (3):  367-368.

Gaier, Ted. 2015. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. The Goose 14 (1): 1-4.

Wiegand, Erin E. 2015. Review Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Interdisciplinary Humanities 32 (2): 119-123.