Posts Categorised: Film
NEW ARTICLE: “Screening the Port City: Poetics and Promotions”
This article in Genre addresses representations of port cities on film. It was co-authored with colleagues in architecture and cinema studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. https://read.dukeupress.edu/genre/article-abstract/55/2/85/319975/Screening-the-Port-City-Poetics-and-Promotions
NEW BOOK: Cognitive Film and Media Ethics
My newest monograph, Cognitive Film and Media Ethics, is out now with Oxford University Press. More information here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cognitive-film-and-media-ethics-9780197552896 Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ethics. This book extends past works in cognitive media studies to answer normative… Read more
NEW ARTICLE: “Picturing the Autobiographical Imagination: Emotion, Memory and Metacognition in Inside Out”
For those of you who enjoy the movie “Inside Out,” here’s an article I just published in Film-Philosophy about its unique animation of memory, emotion and imagination. The film requests an effortful thinking through of their relations, and recognises a similar effortfulness in growing up, thinking through our own thoughts and a developing metacognition as… Read more
NEW ARTICLES: “Criminals at Play: Oedipus, Rope, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead” and “Benign Violations in the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy”
My two latest articles are now online. “Criminals at Play: Oedipus, Rope, and Telltale’s The Walking Dead,” is published in Culture, Theory and Critique and contrasts different acts of storytelling – theatre, film and games – as spaces of narrative play. The article is included in Celia Lam and Melissa Brown’s upcoming “Playful Encounters” special issue of… Read more
NEW ARTICLE: “Individual and Collaborative Labour in the Space Crisis Movie: From Apollo 13 to The Martian”
My latest article in Quarterly Review of Film and Video considers space crisis films, in particular Apollo 13 and The Martian, and depictions of collaborative intellectual labour. A good one for the sci-fi fans, and includes research from the John Sayles Archive around Apollo 13‘s production history. Find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2020.1731274
Interview with Edinburgh University Press
An interview with Edinburgh University Press about my two books Narrative Humanism and ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is now on their website. You can find it here: https://euppublishingblog.com/2019/11/27/an-interview-with-wyatt-moss-wellington-author-of-narrative-humanism-and-co-editor-of-refocus-the-films-of-spike-jonze
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