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This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within
the academy more deeply in environmental research through
arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of
scripts for documentary film, audio-visual and stage formats,
focusing on how the identity of a place is constructed and
contested in the face of environmental concerns around fossil-fuel
extraction in a globalized, visual society--and specifically on the
rising, international public-relations war over Alberta's
stewardship of the tar sands. Each script is followed by discussion
of the author's choices of initiating idea, research sources,
format, voices, world of the story, structure and visual style, and
other notes on the convergence of synthesis, analysis and
(re)presentation in the script. Included are lively analysis and
commentary on screenwriting and playwriting theory, the creation
and dissemination of the scripts, and reflections to ground a
proposed framework for writing eco-themed scripts for screen,
audio-visual and stage formats.
After tough assignments as a Canadian diplomat abroad, Nicholas
Coghlan and his wife Jenny unwind by sailing Bosun Bird, a 27foot
sailboat, from Cape Town, South Africa, across the South Atlantic
and into the stormy winter waters around Tierra del Fuego, South
America. Coghlan recounts earlier adventures in Patagonia when,
taking time off from his job as a schoolteacher in Buenos Aires in
the late 1970s, he and Jenny explored the region of southern
Argentina and Chile over three successive summers. This time, as
they negotiate the labyrinth of channels and inlets around
snow-covered Fireland, he reflects on voyages of past explorers:
Magellan, Cook, Darwin, and others. Sailing enthusiasts and readers
of true adventures will want to add Coghlan's world-wise narrative
to their libraries.
This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within
the academy more deeply in environmental research through
arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of
scripts for documentary film, audio-visual and stage formats,
focusing on how the identity of a place is constructed and
contested in the face of environmental concerns around fossil-fuel
extraction in a globalized, visual society--and specifically on the
rising, international public-relations war over Alberta's
stewardship of the tar sands. Each script is followed by discussion
of the author's choices of initiating idea, research sources,
format, voices, world of the story, structure and visual style, and
other notes on the convergence of synthesis, analysis and
(re)presentation in the script. Included are lively analysis and
commentary on screenwriting and playwriting theory, the creation
and dissemination of the scripts, and reflections to ground a
proposed framework for writing eco-themed scripts for screen,
audio-visual and stage formats.
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the
pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian
exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian
colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has
come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume Melnyk and
Coates continue the project of scholarly analysis of Alberta
literature that they began with Wild Words: Essays on Alberta
Literature (2009). They argue that the essays in their new book
confirm that Alberta's literary identity is historically contingent
with a diverse, changing content, that makes its definition a
work-in-progress. The essays in this volume provide contemporary
perspectives on major figures in poetry and fiction, such as Robert
Kroetsch, Sheila Watson, Alice Major, and Fred Stenson. Other
essays bring to light relatively unknown figures such as the
Serbian Canadian writer David Albahari and the pioneer clergyman
Nestor Dmytrow. Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity
offers a detailed discussion of contemporary Indigenous writers, an
overview of Alberta historiography of the past century, and the
fascinating autobiographical reflections of the novelist Katherine
Govier on her literary career and its Alberta influences. This
Collection demonstrates that Alberta writers, especially in the
contemporary period, are not afraid to uncover, re-think, and
re-imagine parts of Alberta history, thereby exposing what had been
lain to rest as an unfinished business needing serious
re-consideration.
Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers
negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth
mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable
environmental costs. As place branding assumes paramount importance
in an increasingly global, visual, and ecologically conscious
society, an international battle unfolds over Alberta's bituminous
sands. This battle pits independent documentary filmmakers against
professional communicators employed by government and the oil
industry. Tar Wars engages scholars and students in communications,
film, environmental studies, social psychology, PR, media and
cultural studies, and petrocultures. This book also speaks to
decision makers, activists, and citizens exploring intersections of
energy, environment, culture, politics, economy, media and power.
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