What has television to do with climate? Green screens and green shooting

• Main Authors: Elke Weissmann, Anne Marit Waade
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Environmental communication; Media industry studies; Media studies; Consumption and everyday life; Cultural and creative industries; Cultural studies of nation and region; Culture; representation and identity; Environment and culture; Globalisation and culture; Multicultural; intercultural and cross-cultural studies; Screen and media culture; television; climate change; television industry; texts; landscape; tourism; drone photography; Greenland; Critical Studies in Television Conference 2024; Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Climate change; Kiruna; midnight sun
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25416/edgehill.26180266.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/media/What_has_television_to_do_with_climate_Green_screens_and_green_shooting/26180266

Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University, Denmark What has television to do with climate? Green screens and green shooting A crucial interdisciplinary research field is emerging focusing on the relationship between media and environment, in some contexts framed as ‘environmental media studies’ as part of environmental humanities, and in others ‘Anthropocene television studies’, ‘cli-fi’, or just ‘green screens’ and ‘green shooting’ (Doyle, Redclift & Woodgate 2011; Kääpä & Vaughan 2022; Leyda 2021; Iménez-Morales & Lopera-Mármol 2021 +2022; Saunders 2024; Soernesen & Noonan 2022; Souch 2020). In this talk I will map the different approaches to study and understand the relationship between television and climate. I will include both how television content represents and contributes to the ongoing societal discussion about environmental issues (green screens), as well as how the screen industry considers climate issues in the production practices (green shooting). Based on my own research on Nordic television drama series and screened landscapes, I will give some examples of both green screens and green shooting. Nordic noir and Arctic noir have in many cases dealt with climate issues as part of the narrative and the landscape aesthetics. In my talk I will draw on my work on the Danish series Borgen – Power and Glory (2022, DR/Netflix) taking place in Greenland, and Midnight Sun (2016, Nice/Canal+) set in Kiruna, as good examples of green screens and Anthropocene television drama (Grønlund & Waade 2024; Souch, Saunders and Waade 2023; Waade 2020). However, green screens are not restricted to fiction, but encompass also other kinds of television content as news, documentaries, and factual entertainment. When it comes to green shooting, there are different kinds of considerations and research approaches, from critical political economy viewpoints, industry regulations, case-based production studies, technological and economic angles, to environmental production activism and community work. In this ...