Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3464768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wyatt Moss-Wellington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wyatt |
| FAMILY NAME | Moss-Wellington |
| SIGNATURE | MOSS-WELLINGTON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6799-4439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Which one of you will hurt me?”
Peter Blegvad and Song-as-Philosophy
Literary scholars have considered whether fiction is a species of philosophic thought experiment. Similarly, a contention in film theory asks whether film is a kind of philosophy or can only illustratively contribute to philosophic lines of inquiry. This article asks: What about song? What resources does song have that can be considered, of themselves, experiments in thought and feeling, intended to convey subjective insights to shared, contempla…
What Can Cognitive Media Studies Bring to Social Justice
This special issue is dedicated to research on cognition, stigma, and inclusion in film and media studies. We aim to highlight existing research in cognitive media theory and social justice, and also to bring in diverse perspectives from adjacent fields to foster interdisciplinary research into the future. In bringing these voices together, we hope to demonstrate the diverse nature of current research in cognitive film and media theory, and to di…
Going to the movies in VR
Virtual reality cinemas offer computer-generated screening environments that resemble physical-world movie theaters for avatar-based viewers. Reflecting on virtual spectatorship in the context of social isolation, the present study investigates whether VR cinemas could provide an alternative for collective movie watching and whether they could facilitate an engaging experience similar to other, physical-world co-viewing environments. To measure t…
Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema
This article contributes to two relatively under-researched areas in the existing literature of Taiwanese popular culture and film studies – Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema. We compare five case studies in Taiwanese-language port city cinema: Anping zhuixiang qu ( Nostalgic Song of Anping ) (Chen Yang 1969), Huilai anping gang ( Back to Anping Harbor ) (Wu Feijian 1972), Fenggui lai de ren ( The Boys from Fengkuei ) (Hou…
Screening the Port City
This article contrasts a range of films from around the world that take place within port cities. It presents the port city film as a case of transnational “geographic imaginary” that dramatizes spaces of contact across lifeworlds. The authors find that there are two primary narrative modes in the port city film: a dominant mode in which gender, ethnic, class, and other identities bestowed by the geographic imaginary become inescapable, and a res…
Introduction
This special issue addresses notions of fakery in our contemporary media environment, from fake news to the deepfake. While all media contains elements of creative fabrication, we define ‘media fakery’ as an attempt to conceal the origins of information that must contain a degree of human intentionality to be considered ‘fake’. Fakery is no longer limited to news media or any particular mode of communication; as tools for manipulating digital con…
Picturing the Autobiographical Imagination
Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen, 2015) develops novel cinematic means for representing memory, emotion and imagination, their interior relationships and their social expression. Its unique animated language both playfully represents pre-teenage metacognition, and is itself a manner of metacognitive interrogation. Inside Out motivates this language to ask two questions: an explicit question regarding the social function of sadness, and…
Benign violations in the suburban ensemble dramedy
Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren’s benign violation theory (BVT) argues that humour is produced when three conditions are met: we perceive a situation as potentially violating, we perceive it also as benign, and the two perceptions occur simultaneously. This model is applied as a means to analyse comedy in screen media. BVT is motivated to describe the cognitive dissonances inherent to comedy spectatorship, and to perform hermeneutic readings of scr…
Cognitive Film and Media Ethics
Affecting Profundity
Cognitive dissonance provides a model for understanding how we experience film texts as profound. This article looks at the ways in which filmmakers might motivate or exploit the pleasure of resolving familiar narrative dissonance to inspire emotions associated with profundity, sublimity, or transcendence. David Lynch scholarship provides a primary case study in the conflation of cognitive dissonance and transcendence, however it is contended tha…
Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys
Introduction
This special issue addresses notions of fakery in our contemporary media environment, from fake news to the deepfake. While all media contains elements of creative fabrication, we define ‘media fakery’ as an attempt to conceal the origins of information that must contain a degree of human intentionality to be considered ‘fake’. Fakery is no longer limited to news media or any particular mode of communication; as tools for manipulating digital con…
Humanist Ethics in John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys
Affecting Profundity
Cognitive dissonance provides a model for understanding how we experience film texts as profound. This article looks at the ways in which filmmakers might motivate or exploit the pleasure of resolving familiar narrative dissonance to inspire emotions associated with profundity, sublimity, or transcendence. David Lynch scholarship provides a primary case study in the conflation of cognitive dissonance and transcendence, however it is contended tha…
Picturing the Autobiographical Imagination
Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronnie Del Carmen, 2015) develops novel cinematic means for representing memory, emotion and imagination, their interior relationships and their social expression. Its unique animated language both playfully represents pre-teenage metacognition, and is itself a manner of metacognitive interrogation. Inside Out motivates this language to ask two questions: an explicit question regarding the social function of sadness, and…
Benign violations in the suburban ensemble dramedy
Peter McGraw and Caleb Warren’s benign violation theory (BVT) argues that humour is produced when three conditions are met: we perceive a situation as potentially violating, we perceive it also as benign, and the two perceptions occur simultaneously. This model is applied as a means to analyse comedy in screen media. BVT is motivated to describe the cognitive dissonances inherent to comedy spectatorship, and to perform hermeneutic readings of scr…
Cognitive Film and Media Ethics
Screening the Port City
This article contrasts a range of films from around the world that take place within port cities. It presents the port city film as a case of transnational “geographic imaginary” that dramatizes spaces of contact across lifeworlds. The authors find that there are two primary narrative modes in the port city film: a dominant mode in which gender, ethnic, class, and other identities bestowed by the geographic imaginary become inescapable, and a res…
Introduction
This special issue addresses notions of fakery in our contemporary media environment, from fake news to the deepfake. While all media contains elements of creative fabrication, we define ‘media fakery’ as an attempt to conceal the origins of information that must contain a degree of human intentionality to be considered ‘fake’. Fakery is no longer limited to news media or any particular mode of communication; as tools for manipulating digital con…
What Can Cognitive Media Studies Bring to Social Justice
This special issue is dedicated to research on cognition, stigma, and inclusion in film and media studies. We aim to highlight existing research in cognitive media theory and social justice, and also to bring in diverse perspectives from adjacent fields to foster interdisciplinary research into the future. In bringing these voices together, we hope to demonstrate the diverse nature of current research in cognitive film and media theory, and to di…
Going to the movies in VR
Virtual reality cinemas offer computer-generated screening environments that resemble physical-world movie theaters for avatar-based viewers. Reflecting on virtual spectatorship in the context of social isolation, the present study investigates whether VR cinemas could provide an alternative for collective movie watching and whether they could facilitate an engaging experience similar to other, physical-world co-viewing environments. To measure t…
Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema
This article contributes to two relatively under-researched areas in the existing literature of Taiwanese popular culture and film studies – Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema. We compare five case studies in Taiwanese-language port city cinema: Anping zhuixiang qu ( Nostalgic Song of Anping ) (Chen Yang 1969), Huilai anping gang ( Back to Anping Harbor ) (Wu Feijian 1972), Fenggui lai de ren ( The Boys from Fengkuei ) (Hou…
“Which one of you will hurt me?”
Peter Blegvad and Song-as-Philosophy
Literary scholars have considered whether fiction is a species of philosophic thought experiment. Similarly, a contention in film theory asks whether film is a kind of philosophy or can only illustratively contribute to philosophic lines of inquiry. This article asks: What about song? What resources does song have that can be considered, of themselves, experiments in thought and feeling, intended to convey subjective insights to shared, contempla…
Art (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Media Influence and Health (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)