The usefulness of climate change films |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro 3810-193, Portugal;2. KU Leuven, Parkstraat 45 Bus 3605, Leuven 3000, Belgium;1. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Campus UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain;2. Climate Change Program, DNV GL Strategic Research and Innovation, Veritasveien 1, NO-1308 Høvik, Norway;3. CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo, P.O. Box 1129, Blindern, NO-0318 Oslo, Norway;1. School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, USA;2. Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, 105 South State St., Suite 4661, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106, USA;1. Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change and the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University, Sweden;2. Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Denmark;3. Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University and the Norrköping Visualization Center C, Sweden;4. Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway;5. Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark;1. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA;2. Climate Outreach, Oxford, UK;3. School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK;4. Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA |
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| Abstract: | Climate change films are relevant to geographers working in sub-disciplines, such as environmental management, climate science and visual studies. This paper assesses the usefulness of climate change films in light of ongoing debates in science communication and climate change communication about the best-known and most popular movies. Using a handful of English-language films as a sample, the paper asks how the usefulness of climate change films is to be determined if not by sole reference to the accuracy or truthfulness of factual information. The paper demonstrates that all types of films (from award-winning science documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters) have been debated and critiqued, especially in regard to scientific verisimilitude and image integrity. Usefulness is therefore not a matter of film type. Nor is it simply a matter of accuracy, because films containing inaccuracies have their supporters as well. The paper evaluates usefulness in terms of the work that climate change films do and the methods they use. I argue that the two key criteria for determining usefulness are teachability and integrity. In conclusion, I reinforce calls to detach the issue of usefulness from accurate science per se. Useful films are educative, truthful and trustworthy, in ways not always intended by filmmakers. |
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| Keywords: | Science communication Climate change communication Climate change films |
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