Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis: Towards a Greener Screen

The book explores the relationship between screen media and the environment in the 21st century, highlighting the rapid expansion and diversification of the industry's resource use, infrastructure construction, energy dependency, and consequent waste and emissions production. It argues that 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. It also explores the push for sustainability measures along various lines of industry management, policy, and practice, 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.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 20 August 2023
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

The global screen media industry plays a significant role in raising awareness of the political and social issues resulting from accelerated environmental instability, but it also has a significant environmental and social impact due to the rapid expansion and diversification of its resource use, infrastructure construction, energy dependency, and waste and emissions production. To address these structures, there has been a heightened push for sustainability measures along various lines of industry management, policy, and practice. 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. The book is divided into three sections: 'Media Infrastructures and Production', 'Policy and Regulation', and 'Labour and Work'.

The first section, 'Media Infrastructures and Production', explores the ways in which the global screen media industry has responded to the challenges of environmental instability. It looks at the development of digital production, distribution, and archiving technologies, as well as the impact of these technologies on the industry's resource use, infrastructure construction, energy dependency, and waste and emissions production. It also examines the role of media infrastructure in shaping media production cultures and the ways in which these cultures can contribute to environmental sustainability.

The second section, 'Policy and Regulation', examines the policies and regulations that have been put in place to address the environmental impact of the global screen media industry. It looks at the role of governments, industry bodies, and civil society organizations in shaping these policies and regulations, as well as the challenges that they face in implementing them. It also examines the ways in which these policies and regulations can be used to promote sustainability and reduce the environmental and social impact of the industry.

The third section, 'Labour and Work', examines the ways in which the global screen media industry employs labour and work. It looks at the working conditions of media workers, the impact of the industry on their health and safety, and the ways in which the industry can promote sustainable employment practices. It also examines the role of media workers in shaping media production cultures and the ways in which these cultures can contribute to environmental sustainability.

Overall, the book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the relationship between the global screen media industry and the environment. It highlights the need for sustainable practices and policies to be implemented in the industry to address its environmental and social impact. It also provides a range of perspectives on the ways in which media production cultures can contribute to environmental sustainability, and the challenges that they face in doing so.

In conclusion, the global screen media industry plays a significant role in raising awareness of the political and social issues resulting from accelerated environmental instability, but it also has a significant environmental and social impact due to the rapid expansion and diversification of its resource use, infrastructure construction, energy dependency, and waste and emissions production. To address these structures, there has been a heightened push for sustainability measures along various lines of industry management, policy, and practice. 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. The book is divided into three sections: 'Media Infrastructures and Production', 'Policy and Regulation', and 'Labour and Work'.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030981228
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022