Climate Reality On-Screen: The Climate Crisis in Popular Films, 2013-22

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dc.contributor.authorSchneider-Mayerson, Matthewen_US
dc.contributor.authorLim, Jeralden_US
dc.contributor.authorBellido, Dominicen_US
dc.contributor.authorStringer, Moyaen_US
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Adria Zhengen_US
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Zokyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-16T16:18:15Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-12-16T16:18:15Zen_US
dc.date.issued2024en_US
dc.description.abstractMost research that has examined climate change in film has focused on anomalous climate-focused films such as The Day After Tomorrow and Don’t Look Up, but fictional narratives have their greatest impact in the aggregate, through repetition of common settings, themes, and actions. Is the film industry as a whole helping us face and respond to the climate crisis—or avoid it? To answer this question, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson worked with five current and former students (Dominic Bellido, Moya Stringer, Adria Zheng Wilson, and Zoky Zhou) to apply a communication studies methodology to the 250 most popular films of the last decade (2013 to 2022), identifying the presence of climate c hange in a film’s story world; climate awareness; scenes with climate mentions; common climate impacts; and climate-positive and climate-negative behaviors in each film. The result is “Climate Change On-screen,” a groundbreaking systematic analysis of climate change in popular films, published by the Buck Lab for Climate & Energy at Colby College and Good Energy, a leading climate consultancy.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMatthew Schneider-Mayerson, Jerald Lim, Dominic Bellido, Moya Stringer, Adria Wilson, and Zoky Zhou. 2024. “Climate Reality On-Screen: The Climate Crisis in Popular Films, 2013–22.” The Buck Lab for Climate and Environment at Colby College and Good Energy. https://doi.org/10.25611/4130-EK29en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/4130-EK29en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/118070en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBuck Lab for Climate and Environment at Colby College and Good Energyen_US
dc.rightsThis work is protected by copyright and is made available here for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.titleClimate Reality On-Screen: The Climate Crisis in Popular Films, 2013-22en_US
dc.typeReporten_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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