Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of by Geo Takach

By Geo Takach

This quantity explores the way to have interaction audiences either past and in the academy extra deeply in environmental study via arts-based kinds. It builds on a multi-pronged case research of scripts for documentary movie, audio-visual and level codecs, concentrating on how the id of a spot is developed and contested within the face of environmental issues round fossil-fuel extraction in a globalized, visible society--and in particular at the emerging, overseas public-relations struggle over Alberta’s stewardship of the tar sands. every one script is via dialogue of the author’s offerings of beginning suggestion, study resources, layout, voices, international of the tale, constitution and visible variety, and different notes at the convergence of synthesis, research and (re)presentation within the script. incorporated are energetic research and observation on screenwriting and playwriting thought, the production and dissemination of the scripts, and reflections to floor a proposed framework for writing eco-themed scripts for display, audio-visual and degree formats.

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