Posts By: Wyatt Moss-Wellington
NEW BOOK: Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film
My first monograph, Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film, has just been released by Edinburgh University Press. Narrative Humanism outlines an approach for reading fictive texts focussed upon the politics of human kindness. The book asks how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questions the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent… Read more
NEW BOOK: ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze
ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze, a collection of essays edited by Kim Wilkins and myself, is now out with Edinburgh University Press. Two of the chapters are written by me: “Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation in Adaptation” and “Spike Jonze’s Screenwriting: The Screenplay.” https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-spike-jonze.html
NEW ARTICLE: “The emotional politics of limerence in romantic comedy films”
My latest article, published in the #Emotions special issue of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, looks at political romcom films. You can read it here: necsus-ejms.org/the-emotional-politics-of-limerence-in-romantic-comedy-films
NEW ARTICLES: On Domestic Ensemble Films
Two new articles published recently, for those interested in readings of domestic ensemble films: For Style journal, I wrote a piece on emotional contagion in the film Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.52.3.0302 For Sydney Studies in English, abject humanism in adaptations of Tom Perrotta novels, Election (Alexander Payne, 1999) and Little Children (Todd Field, 2006): https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/12638
NEW ARTICLE: “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater, and Sayles”
My latest article, “Affecting Profundity: Cognitive and Moral Dissonance in Lynch, Loach, Linklater, and Sayles” is published in Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind. You can find it here: http://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/projections/11/1/proj110104.xml
NEW ARTICLE: “Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys”
My latest article on “Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys” has just been published in the Film International journal: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=19929/
A Science Party for Australia
In the wake of the federal election, some online communities have begun to speculate on the need for a Science Party in Australian politics. This is something I’ve been considering for some time; with momentum gathering behind the idea, it seems a fine moment to float my musings on how such a party might work…. Read more
Australian Independent Media Inquiry
The Australian media inquiry is currently taking submissions until Oct 31 2011, and I urge everyone to get involved. Email media-inquiry@dbcde.gov.au to make your submission, or use NewsStand’s online form at http://www.newsstand.org.au/make-your-submission. You might consider the following points: 1. Media ownership: do we need to break up New Ltd’s 70% market share and cross-media control,… Read more
COUNTERCULTURAL AND INDEPENDENT MUSIC REVIEW: Q&A with a Couple of Sydney Artists
Not long ago I sent the following interview questions to some friends and colleagues who are all in some way engaged with countercultural music-making in Australia. The questions were my way of attempting to understand what was going on in our heads when we thought about the role music has and could have in our… Read more
Locking up asylum seekers is an expensive political campaign
It’s expensive to keep anyone in detention, especially the remote, grim detention centres found on Christmas Island, so it is worth asking why our government would want to squander so much money locking up asylum seekers for such limitless periods – what are we getting in return? Obviously we are getting psychological abuse of a… Read more