Essay: Media & the Environment - Personal Reflection Essay
Review:
Environmentalism in Popular Culture by Noel Sturgeon
Eco Media by Sean Cubitt
Seeing Green-the Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images by Finis Dunaway
Create a 3 to 4 page double-spaced reflection essay on how you engage with environmental media, whether as something for education, entertainment, or aesthetic experience. Engaging with the concepts or theories of AT LEAST TWO READINGS from this class (with full citations), and drawing connections to film genres and modes of engagement we have watched and discussed in class, choose a specific textual example (a particular film, television show, commercial, online video, series, etc) that you believe impacted your relationship to the environment
and environmental issues, and discuss how it has shaped your environmental values and behavior.
Include a detailed textual analysis of one scene or sequence that exemplifies how the film, television, or online text creates and communicates its environmental message.
Need to include a detailed textual analysis of one scene about the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" or "Baraka" or "A River Runs Through It"