Troubling spaces: Ecological risk, narrative framing, and emotional engagement in The Age of Stupid

Emotion, Space and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 108-116

  Weik von Mossner, Alexa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate change communications; Cognitive film theory; Documentary film; Ecological risk; Emotion; The Age of Stupid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874461021     PISSN: 17554586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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