Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis

Towards a Greener Screen

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Edited by Pietari Kääpä and Hunter Vaughan

Type

Essays

Subject

General

Keywords

ecology, ethics

Publishing date

2022

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 257 pages
6 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches (16 x 22 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-98119-8

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Book Presentation:
This volume brings together a range of voices from across the global environmental media community to build a comparative international set of perspectives on ‘green’ film and television production. Through this, it provides a necessary intervention in environmental media studies that actively foregrounds media infrastructure, production, policy, and labour – that is, the management and practice of media production cultures.
Due to its immense sociocultural influence and economic resources, the global screen media industry is at the forefront of raising awareness for the political and social issues resulting from accelerated environmental instability. However, the 21st century relationship between screen media and the environment has another face that demands urgent scrutiny. The advent of the digital age and the vast electrical and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructures required to support digital production, distribution, and archiving has resulted in the rapid expansion and diversification of the industry’s resource use, infrastructure construction, energy dependency, and consequent waste and emissions production. Addressing these structures is essential to alleviating their environmental and social impact and ensuring that the industry’s rhetoric on environmental responsibility is reflected in its practice.
As a mitigating counterbalance to the above trends, there has been a heightenedpush for sustainability measures along various lines of industry management, policy, and practice. These initiatives―including the cultural values they reflect, the political economies that form their logic, the managerial and marketing tactics that orchestrate them, and the environmental realities of their implementation―form the central object of inquiry for this collection.

About the authors:
Pietari Kaapa is Reader in Media and Communications at the University of Warwick. He works in the field of environmental media studies with a specific focus on media management and industry studies.Hunter Vaughan is Senior Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre forTechnology and Democracy, University of Cambridge.

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