Overview

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues, representing the world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, has been met with critical and popular acclaim. This cohesive and accessible volume is the first book-length study of environmental documentary filmmaking, offering a coherent analysis of controversial and high-profile documentary films such as Gasland, An Inconvenient Truth, Manufactured Landscapes, and The Cove. With analysis that includes the wider context of environmental documentary filmmaking, such as Modern Life and Sleep Furiously, about local rural communities in Britain and Europe, Green Documentary also contributes to the ongoing debate on representing the crisis.

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'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

Green Documentary offers a robust introduction to the evolving subfield of ecomedia and documentary cinema's place within it. --Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

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Helen Hughes is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Surrey.

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