CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Milicevic, Milos |
|---|---|
| Title | Factuality of Truth: An Alternative Look at Popular Environmental Documentary Film Narratives |
| Summary | Documentary film has become an important arena for the construction of concepts and meanings in the environmental field. Although this is often not the case, many people still believe in the factuality of documentary films and their ability to convey an objective view of the world. While such films have already received academic attention, most research from an environmental point of view has focused on the science in such movies or alternatively on their rhetorical effectiveness with little attention paid to how such narratives construct environmental problems in relation to broader sociopolitical realities. This research aims to fill this research gap and by exploring the narratives of An Inconvenient Truth and Home discusses the consequences of the different ways of constructing environmental problems in relation to sociopolitical realities. The effects of differing rhetorical contexts and purposes in the two analyzed films suggest that these will have a severe impact on the outcomes of the communication. But as the conclusions will show, the two analyzed films are also reflecting the growing divide in the environmental discourse- one between environmentalism calling for sweeping social transformations and neoliberal environmentalism seeking to solve the problems within current political and social systems. |
| Supervisor | Steger, Tamara |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/milicevic_milos.pdf |
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