During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores how the films offer a variety of responses to the questions raised by environmental change: about the future of the countryside, the relationship between health and industrial pollution, the role of corporations and the politics of energy and climate. Offering a coherent analysis of imaginative, controversial and high-profile documentary films such as Into Eternity, The Yes Men Fix the World and An Inconvenient Truth, the book divides the responses into contemplation, irony and passionate argument, and the recruitment of the filmmaking process itself into the campaign to bring about better change. Along with analysis that includes the wider context of environmental documentary filmmaking, about local rural communities in Britain and Europe, Green Documentary underlines the important role of documentary film in the on-going public debate about the environment.

About the Author
Helen Hughes is a senior lecturer in German and film studies at the University of Surrey. She is the author of Green Documentary (2014) and co-editor of Documentary and Disability (2017) and has published articles in journals and books on documentary, experimental, and German-language cinema.

Reviews

'Green Documentary offers a robust introduction to the evolving subfield of ecomedia and documentary cinema's place within it. Green Documentary is thus ideal for both undergraduates and scholars interested in the intersection of documentary cinema and ecological criticism.'

-- Rachel Webb Jekanowski, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment



Book Information
ISBN 9781783201839
Author Helen Hughes
Format Paperback
Page Count 182
Imprint Intellect Books
Publisher Intellect Books
Weight(grams) 318g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 10mm