Decades Away or<i>The Day After Tomorrow</i>?: Rhetoric, Film, and the Global Warming Debate

Burg, Ron Von

doi:10.1080/15295036.2011.637221

Cited by 26 publications

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“…Likewise, some have also suggested that the prevalence of disaster films depicting global catastrophes are a metaphor for climate change (Von Burg, 2012) as they reflect a global problem, with global consequences, that requires a global solution. So, despite no disaster film accurately portraying climate change, they assert that the global catastrophe bias is how Hollywood is addressing climate change and associated anxieties.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The landscape of disaster film, 2000–20

Montano

Carr

2022

Disasters

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The general public's understanding of disasters is influenced by the portrayal of such events in popular culture. Disaster films have remained a core attraction in this regard. A systematic assessment of the most recent disaster film cycle (that is, from January 2000–December 2019) is warranted, therefore, to gain insights into the current landscape of the genre and to comprehend better the imagery that people encounter onscreen. This study evaluated 173 disaster films and found that most depict natural hazards and global catastrophes despite films about monsters and smaller‐scale disasters being the most popular. It provides a foundation for future research on the relevance of disaster films to disaster scholarship and emergency management practice. And it offers a starting point to analyse the role of disaster films in shaping the meaning and experience of disasters, generally, and the layperson's understanding of disasters and emergency management, including expectations of responder agencies and organisations.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The landscape of disaster film, 2000–20

Montano

Carr

2022

Disasters

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“…Other scholars have investigated novel media forms for communicating science. Examples include the use of dramatic imagery from film to add visceral urgency to climate change arguments (Sakellari, 2015; Von Burg, 2012) and video games as a means for making personal connections between players’ lives and environmental impacts (Ouariachi et al, 2019). But, the unique contribution of this project is in its exploration of leveraging computational media to communicate the Anthropocene with corporeal sound: sound from, and between, bodies.…”

Section: Conclusion: Byrdbot and Corporeal Attachment To Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Emergent Sonification: Using Computational Media to Communicate the Anthropocene in ByrdBot

Coleman

Simon²,

Pierce

et al. 2023

Science Communication

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This research note describes ByrdBot, a science communication tool that leverages bird songs to communicate data regarding human impacts on the environment. With ByrdBot, listeners can compare simulated soundscapes of 1970, 2017, and 2065 to immediately, and viscerally, experience decades of past or projected future environmental change. The communication tactic of ByrdBot—what we call emergent sonification—is discussed as one that capitalizes on computational media to facilitate attunement to nonhuman voices and, subsequently, to offer an affective grasping of the impacts of such phenomena as habitat destruction and climate change on wildlife displacement and loss.

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“…A majority of scholarship on representations of ecological destruction focuses on either explicitly proenvironmental films (Hammond & Breton, ; Mellor, ; Rosteck & Frentz, ; Salvador & Norton, ; Von Burg, ) or still images in news reporting, advertising, photographs, and children's fiction (Corbett, ; Dobrin & Morey, ; Slawter, ; Wolfe, ). But, one reason to attend to the toxic screen is that television has been recently flooded with toxic images of pollution and economic maldevelopment.…”

Section: The Toxic Screenmentioning

confidence: 99%