Scripting the Environment

Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-82099-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 3351 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for documentary film, audio-visual and stage formats, focusing on how the identity of a place is constructed and contested in the face of environmental concerns around fossil-fuel extraction in a globalized, visual society--and specifically on the rising, international public-relations war over Alberta’s stewardship of the tar sands. Each script is followed by discussion of the author’s choices of initiating idea, research sources, format, voices, world of the story, structure and visual style, and other notes on the convergence of synthesis, analysis and (re)presentation in the script. Included are lively analysis and commentary on screenwriting and playwriting theory, the creation and dissemination of the scripts, and reflections to ground a proposed framework for writing eco-themed scripts for screen, audio-visual and stage formats.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Takach, Geo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1.Environment, Communication and Arts-Based Research.- 2.A Line in the Bit-Sands.- 3.Tarred and Feathered.- 4.Voices from the Visual Volley.- 5.War of the Wild Roses.- 6.Scripting Environmental Research.- Appendix: A Framework for Scripting Environmental Research

Über Autor(innen)

Geo Takach is a writer, filmmaker, speaker and instructor. His adventures span hundreds of publications in speeches, print, theatre, film, radio, television and Boolean ether. After many years of teaching communications at four universities in Alberta, Canada, he recently became Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University, Canada.