Screen LibraryMoving 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...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Waterloo, Ontario : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Environmental humanities
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| Summary: |
"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 suc |
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vii, 286 pages ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781771120029 : 1771120029 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J90-05 |
| Call Number: | J90-05/M935 |
| Contents: |
Emotion and affect in eco-films : cognitive and phenomenological approaches / Emotions of consequence? Viewing eco-documentaries from a cognitive perspective / Irony and contemporary ecocinema : theorizing a new affective paradigm / On the "inexplicable magic of cinema" : critical anthropomorphism, emotion, and the wildness of wildlife films / Emotion, argumentation, and documentary traditions : Darwin's |