[Commlist] New book: Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis: A Greener Screen

/NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT (apologies for cross-posting)/

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*/Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis: A Greener 
Screen/*

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Edited by Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick) and Hunter Vaughan 
(University of Cambridge)

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/Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis/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 industry’s 
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 industry’s rhetoric on environmental responsibility is 
reflected in its practice.

As a mitigating counterbalance to the above trends, there has been a 
heightened push for sustainability measures along various lines of 
industry management, policy, and practice. These initiatives—including 
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 implementation—form the central 
object of inquiry for this collection.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98120-4 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98120-4>

*Contents*

/Introduction: Film and Television Production in the Era of Accelerated 
Climate Change: A Greener Screen?/

Hunter Vaughan and Pietari Kaapa

Section 1: 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 /

Inge Sorensen and Caitriona Noonan

Section 2: Transnational green production

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

Mette Hjort

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

Judith Keilbach and Fieke Spoler

/The Sustainability Challenges in the Colombian Audio-visual Industry/

Norma Cuadros González & Javier Machicado

/Greening the Media Industry: a case study of Ireland /

Pat Brereton, Anthony Muldoon and John Gormley

Section 3: The futures of green media

/A scholarship of hope: taking stock of UK screen industries via the 
lens of digital work over digital solutionism /

Andrew McWirther

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

Laura U. Marks and Radek Przedpełski:


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