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Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space (Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication) - Hardcover

Book 6 of 23: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

Takach, Geo

 
9783319404325: Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and Space (Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3319404326 ISBN 13: 9783319404325
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3319404326
ISBN 13 
9783319404325
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
255