Post-Pandoran Depression or Na'vi Sympathy: Avatar, Affect, and Audience Reception
Purporting to send an environmentally and spiritually healthy message, Avatar seems like an ideal candidate to positively impact audience members' positions towards the environment on a large scale. Indeed, director James Cameron said that "Avatar asks us all to be warriors for the Earth.&...
| Autore principale: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Verificare la disponibilità: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Pubblicazione: |
2010
|
| In: |
Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Anno: 2010, Volume: 4, Fascicolo: 4, Pagine: 414-424 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Environments
B Ethics B Felix Guattari B Audience Reception B Avatar (realtà virtuale) B Ecosophy B Gilles Deleuze B Affect |
| Accesso online: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Riepilogo: | Purporting to send an environmentally and spiritually healthy message, Avatar seems like an ideal candidate to positively impact audience members' positions towards the environment on a large scale. Indeed, director James Cameron said that "Avatar asks us all to be warriors for the Earth." Since Avatar was released in theaters, however, there have been two overwhelming trends in response to the film: either, a seemingly immediate change in the spectators' worldview and relationship with the environment; or, the creation of an unachievable desire for the hyper-real techno-spiritual world of Pandora. These responses - environmentally proactive Na'vi sympathy and a debilitating post-Pandoran depression - offer examples of two, very different, relationships with the world. At the base of these relationships is the film's ability to provoke emotional response in audiences, which engenders positive or negative relationships with the environment. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.v4i4.414 |
