Overview
- Explores how environmental-communication research can be shared with wider audiences through arts-based forms, specifically scripts for film, television, online video and the stage
- Reveals how the identity of a place and the values of its residents are constructed and contested through documentary film and online video in the face of environmental concerns around fossil-fuel extraction in a globalized, visual society
- Combines critical theory and political economy with arts-based research, aided by narrative inquiry, critical visual discourse analysis and visual framing analysis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)
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“Scripting the Environment is an outstanding example of how arts-based research--and scripts in particular--can be used in service of environmental research. Indeed, Geo Takach has taken the fields of arts-based research and environmental studies forward, by showing how the former can be used in service of the latter. This is a well-written, engaging, and insightful book that offers environmentalists new, creative ways to think about conducting and sharing their research. I highly recommend it.” (Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., author of “Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice” and editor of the “Social Fictions series”)
“Drawing on environmental communication praxis, Takach combines cutting-edge scholarship and applied experience as a screen and stage writer to address the world’s largest industrial project in Canada. It is work such as this, persuasive and poetic, that we need to engage to learn how to address the complex challenges we face with greater imagination and renewed hope.” (Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of “Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice”)
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Book Title: Scripting the Environment
Book Subtitle: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space
Authors: Geo Takach
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40433-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40432-5Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82099-6Published: 15 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40433-2Published: 08 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6451
Series E-ISSN: 2634-646X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 238
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Screenwriting, Arts, Media Research, Critical Theory, Documentary