Moving Environments

Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film

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Edited by Alexa Weik Von Mossner

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Documentary

Keywords

documentary, ecology

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Collection

Environmental Humanities

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 296 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-77112-002-9

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Book Presentation:
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.

See the publisher website: Wilfrid Laurier University Press