Moving Environments

Alexa Weik von Mossner is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. She has published widely on cosmopolitanism and various ecocritical issues in literature and film. Her most recent monograph is Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination (2014).

• Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, edited by Alexa Weik von MossnerAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ecocritical Film Studies and the Effects of Affect, Emotion, and Cognition Alexa Weik von Mossner PART I: General and Theoretical Considerations1. Emotion and Affect in Eco-films: Cognitive and Phenomenological Approaches David Ingram 2. Emotions of Consequence? Viewing Eco-documentaries from a Cognitivist Perspective Alexa Weik von Mossner 3. Irony and Contemporary Ecocinema: Theorizing a New Affective Paradigm Nicole Seymour PART II: Anthropomorphism and the Non-Human in Documentary Film4. On the ""Inexplicable Magic of Cinema"": Critical Anthropomorphism, Emotion, and the Wildness of Wildlife Films Bart H. Welling 5. Emotion, Argumentation, and Documentary Traditions: Darwin's Nightmare and The Cove Belinda Smaill 6. Documenting Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics at Sea Robin Murray and Joseph L. Heumann PART III: The Effects and Affects of Animation7. Animation, Realism, and the Genre of Nature David Whitley 8. What Can a Film Do? Assessing Avatar's Global Affects Adrian Ivakhiv 9. Animated Ecocinema and Affect: A Case Study of Pixar's UP Pat Brereton PART IV: The Affect of Place and Time10. Moving Home: Documentary Film and Other Remediations of Post-Katrina New Orleans Janet Walker 11. Evoking Sympathy and Empathy: The Ecological Indian and Indigenous Eco-activism Salma Monani 12. Affect and Environment in Two Artists' Films and a Video Sean Cubitt List of ContributorsIndex

"Ably orchestrated by Alexa Weik von Mossner, these essays provide a valuable introduction to studies of the affective and emotional dimensions of those animated, theatrical, and documentary films that focus on nature-human relationships. Placing a premium on theorizing these dimensions especially as such films are received by audiences, the volume can set the stage for future empirically oriented studies of such audience reception. It is well worth consideration for classroom use in environmental and film studies programs." -- Bron Taylor, editor of 'Avatar and Nature Spirituality' (WLU Press, 2013) and author of 'Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future' (2009)