Three Portrayals of Climate Change
“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard the old saying, reminding us that what we take in, we can’t help but manifest. A similar axiom might apply to other things we take in, like information. Granted, “you are what you read, hear, and/or watch” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, but it’s operating along the same lines.
But, in yet another difference between humans and food, (P1) creative artists use a variety of techniques to influence how we take in what they are telling us. By creative artists I mean writers, directors, and performers, and more specifically I refer to those involved in the works The Day After Tomorrow (DAT), An Inconvenient Truth (AIT), and Field Notes from a Catastrophe.
Some go for the most sensational images and the loudest sounds. Others go for the slideshow presentation. Josh Schoolmeyer – in his article “Lights, Camera, Armageddon” notes, “[E]xperts get it right; Hollywood delivers the crowds…[various media portrayals] linger in the collective conscious of the public,” (Schollmeyer p. 259). (P2) Such different techniques demonstrate an intent to pursue different audiences, or at the very least, to pursue different roles in the same audience. For example, a particular series of nightshow jokes on current events may not be meant to serve as people’s primary news source, although it uses politics and news as its substrate, and could very well bring up a story or issue that the viewer was unaware of.
(X) By comparing and contrasting Field Notes, DAT, and AIT
(Y) this paper will evaluate their respective techniques, goals, and intended audiences,
(Z) in order to examine how media sources specifically present the issue of climate change.
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...mate change, a balance of media is crucial for illustrating both the importance and methodology of this immense challenge to our future.
Works Cited:
An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. Paramount Classics
2006
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Guardian Unlimited. 14 May 2004. The Guardian Newspaper. 19 Oct. 2007
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1215824,00.html
Kolbert Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe. New York: Bloomsbury, 2006.
The Day After Tomorrow. Dir. Roland Emmerich. Perf. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal,
Emmy Rossum. 20th Century Fox 2004
Washingtonpost.com. 27 Jun 2006. The Washington Post Newspaper. 18 Oct. 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/06/27/.html
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