Film and television production in the age of climate crisis : towards a greener screen / Pietari Kääpä, Hunter Vaughan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kääpä, Pietari, 1977- editor.

Vaughan, Hunter, editor.

Unger Gasser Family Endowment for the Study of Screenwriting, Television and New Media.

Series:

Palgrave studies in media and environmental communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--Environmental aspects.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--Environmental aspects.

Motion pictures.

Television broadcasting--Environmental aspects.

Television broadcasting.

Television--Production and direction--Environmental aspects.

Television.

Physical Description:

xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

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 industrys 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 industrys 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 initiativesincluding 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 implementationform the central object of inquiry for this collection.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Policy and Governance

Environmental Media Governance: Strategies for Encountering Uncertainty and Innovation in the Screen Media Industries / Pietari Kaapa

Policy Approaches to Green Film Practices: Local Solutions for a Planetary Problem / Hunter Vaughan

European Screen Agencies and Sustainability: Interventions for Greening the Screen / Caitriona Noonan

Transnational Green Production

The Necessity of Sustainable Filmmaking: Production Notes from Palestine, Burkina Faso, and Zanzibar / Mette Hjort

The Sustainability Challenges in the Colombian Audio-Visual Industry / Elsa Johanna Llorente Buitrago

Greening the Media Industry: A Case Study of Ireland / John Gormley

The Futures of Green Media

Passing on Responsibility: Obstacles to Green Film Production in the Netherlands / Fieke Spoler

A Scholarship of Hope: Taking Stock of UK Screen Industries via the Lens of Digital Work Over Digital Solutionism / Andrew McWhirter

The Carbon Footprint of Streaming Media: Problems, Calculations, Solutions / Radek Przedpetski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Unger Gasser Family Endowment for the Study of Screenwriting, Television and New Media.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030981198

3030981193

OCLC:

1332951347

Publisher Number:

99992999400