TY - BOOK ID - 78718649 TI - The environmental documentary PY - 2017 SN - 1501300377 1441122494 9781441197283 1441197281 9781441122490 9781441176110 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Environmental protection and motion pictures. KW - Documentary films KW - Environmentalism in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - Documentaries, Motion picture KW - Documentary videos KW - Factual films KW - Motion picture documentaries KW - Moving-pictures, Documentary KW - Documentary mass media KW - Nonfiction films KW - Actualities (Motion pictures) KW - Motion pictures and environmental protection KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78718649 AB - The Environmental Documentary provides the first extensive coverage of the most important environmental films of the decade, including their approach to their topics and their impacts on public opinion and political debate. While documentaries with themes of environmental activism date back at least to Pare Lorenz's films of the 1930's, no previous decade has produced the number and quality of films that engage environmental issues from an activist viewpoint. The convergence of high profile issues like climate change, fossil fuel depletion, animal abuse, and corporate malfeasance has combined with the miniaturization of high quality recording equipment and the expansion of documentary programming, to produce an unprecedented number of important and influential documentary productions. The text examines the processes of production and distribution that have produced this explosion in documentaries. The films range from a high-profile Hollywood production with theatrical distribution like An Inconvenient Truth, to shorter independently produced films like The End of Suburbia that have reached a small audience of activists through video distribution, interviews with many of the filmmakers, and word of mouth ER -