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Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis (eBook, PDF)

Towards a Greener Screen

Redaktion: Kääpä, Pietari; Vaughan, Hunter

Beschreibung

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.

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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030981204
• Artikelnr.: 65312335

Rezensionen

This comprehensive edited collection effectively charts the primary challenges, issues and opportunities faced by the film and television production industry while also outlining pathways towards a greener screen. The book provides valuable insights and timely information for scholars focusing on media sustainability and can be considered as essential reading material for incorporation into their teaching endeavours. (Marta Lopera-Mármol, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 19 (3), September, 2024)