During the first decade of the twenty-first century; a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores how the films offer a variety of responses to the questions raised by environmental change: about the future of the countryside; the relationship between health and industrial pollution; the role of corporations; and the politics of energy and climate. Offering a coherent analysis of imaginative; controversial and high-profile documentary films such as Into Eternity; The Yes Men Fix the World and An Inconvenient Truth; the book divides the responses into contemplation; irony and passionate argument; and the recruitment of the filmmaking process itself into the campaign to bring about better change. Along with analysis that includes the wider context of environmental documentary filmmaking; about local rural communities in Britain and Europe; Green Documentary underlines the important role of documentary film in the on-going public debate about the environment.
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