Scripting the Environment

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.

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Introduction.- 1.Environment, Communication and Arts-Based Research.- 2.A Line in the Bit-Sands.- 3.Tarred and Feathered.- 4.Voices from the Visual Volley.- 5.War of the Wild Roses.- 6.Scripting Environmental Research.- Appendix: A Framework for Scripting Environmental Research