CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS MEDIA
Over the years, I have maintained a constant interest in how writers, filmmakers, and other creative producers seek to translate the phenomenon of climate change into engaging stories across a range of media. I’m particularly interested in the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of such intermedial translations, and in the cognitive, affective, and cultural dimensions of their reception.
ASSOCIATED PUBLICATIONS
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. Forthcoming. “A Glacial Pace? Mountain Cinema and the Imagination of Climate Change.” In Global Mountain Cinema, edited by Christian Quendler, Kamaal Haque & Caroline Schaumann. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2024. “Envisioning Intergenerational Justice: Hope, Despair, and Transformative Action in Climate Change Films.” In Cinema of/for the Anthropocene Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship, edited by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Andrea Robin Ruthven. New York: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa 2023. “Tracing Loss in Times of Rapid Climate Change: Figures of Absence in Omar El Akkad’s American War.” English Studies
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Ecology and Emotion: Feeling Narrative Environments.” In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, edited by Patrick Colm Hogan, Lalita Pandit Hogan, and Bradley Irish. New York: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022 “Climate on Screen: From Doom and Disaster to Ecotopian Visions.” In The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, edited by Kelly Sultzbach & Adeline Johns-Putra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2021. “Feeling Bad? Veganism, Climate Change, and the Rhetoric of Cowspiracy.” In Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word, edited by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2021. “Popularizing Climate Change: Cli-Fi Film and Narrative Impact.” In The Research Handbook in Communicating Climate Change, edited by Roman Bartosch, David Holmes und Lucy Richardson. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2020. “Climate Change and the Dark Side of Translating Science into Popular Culture.” In The Dark Side of Translation, edited by Federico Italiano, 111-25. London and New York: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2018. “Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow.” In Cli-Fi: A Companion, edited by Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra, 133-39. Berne and New York: Peter Lang
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2018. “Franny Armstrong’S The Age of Stupid.” In Cli-Fi: A Companion, edited by Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra, 123-29. Berne and New York: Peter Lang.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion and Environmental Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. (in particular chapter 5: “Troubling Futures: Climate Risk and the Emotional Power of Dystopia”).
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. “Cli-fi and the Feeling of Risk.” Extended Forum “Cli-fi and American Studies,” edited by Susanne Leikam and Julia Leyda. Amerikastudien/American Studies 62(1): 129-138.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. “Sensing the Heat: Weather, Water, and Vulnerabilities in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife.” In Meteorologies of Modernity: Weather and Climate Discourses in the Anthropocene, edited by Sarah Fekadu, Hanna Strass-Senol, and Tobias Döring, 173-89. Tübingen: Narr.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. “Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies.” Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, edited by Ursula Heise, Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann, 337-345. New York: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. “Vulnerable Lives: The Affective Dimensions of Risk in Young Adult Cli-Fi.” Special issue on Fiction in the Age of Risk, edited by Tony Hughes-d’Aeth & Golnar Nabizadeh. Textual Practice 31(3): 553-566.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2015. “Small Islands in Documentary Film.” Special Issue Small Islands and Natural Hazards, edited by Uwe Lübken and Rebecca Hofmann. Global Environment 8(2): 178-195
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2015. “Slow Violence on the Beach: Documenting Disappearance in There Once Was an Island.” In The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space, edited by Virginia Richter and Ursula Kluwick, 175-191. London: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2015. “Die Vorstellung der Zukunft: Dystopische Klimaszenarien in der Populärkultur.” Ökologie und die Künste, edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte and Daniela Hahn, 239-250. Munich: Wilhelm Fink.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2014. “Science Fiction and the Risks of the Anthropocene: Anticipated Transformations in Dale Pendell’s The Great Bay.” Environmental Humanities 5: 203-216.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2014. “Disasters Foretold: Imaging Climate Catastrophe in Six Degrees Could Change the World.” In Disaster as Image: Iconographies and Media Strategies across Europe and Asia, edited by Monica Juneja and Gerrit Jasper Schenk, 157-64. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2013. “Troubling Spaces: Ecological Risk, Narrative Framing, and Emotional Engagement in Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid.” Ecology and Emotion, ed. Mick Smith. Special Issue of Emotion, Space and Society 6 (1): 108-116.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2013. “Hope in Dark Times: Climate Change and the World Risk Society in Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017.” In Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers, edited by Carrie Hintz, Balaka Basu, and Katherine A. Broad, 69-83. New York and London: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2012. “Visceralizing Ecocide in Science Fiction Films: The Road and Hell.” The Invention of Eco-Futures: Ecocriticism and Science Fiction, edited by Ursula Heise. Special Issue of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment 3 (2): 42-56.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2012. “Facing The Day After Tomorrow: Filmed Disaster, Emotional Engagement, and Climate Risk Perception.” In American Environments: Climate–Cultures–Catastrophe, edited by Christof Mauch and Sylvia Mayer, 97-115. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2012. “The Human Face of Global Warming: Varieties of Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Climate Change Documentaries.” In Ecocriticism in English Studies, edited by Carmen Flys Junquera and Juan Ignacio Oliva. Special Issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 64: 145-160.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2011. “Reframing Katrina: The Color of Disaster in Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke.” Coloring the Environmental Lens: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema, New Media, and Just Sustainability, edited by Salma Monani, Belinda Chiu, and Carlo Arreglo. Special Issue of Environmental Communication 2 (5): 146-165.