The eco-documentary and environmental history: possible and desirable encounters and compromises. Thoughts based on the film Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet
Résumé
A new (sub-)genre has emerged in the field of documentary films since the mid-2000s namely the eco-documentary. The makers of these films generally present their approach as both an analysis of political responses to environmental problems and an attempt to raise citizens' awareness to incite them to take action. To achieve this dual purpose, they combine a rhetoric of facts and documented reality with narrative and visual strategies that add emotion and identification to the viewer experience. However, some of the narrative and image-based choices are problematic for me as a historian. Above all, I question both the effectiveness of current eco-documentaries in inciting people to take action and the nature of change they encourage. My thoughts are illustrated with the film 'Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet' (2018).
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