Abstract This review explores the twin documentaries Earth and Planet Earth. Both are structured with the same goal of exploring our planet and its nonhuman animal inhabitants, but they diverge in approach. Using Disney’s “True-Life Adventure” series as an ideal, the view of human-nonhuman animal relations presented in Earth differs from the one presented in Planet Earth. While the former relies strongly on a purified image that mirrors traditional (Western, human) ideals, the latter presents an image ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change Communication and Perception
2010 - Brill | Society and Animals
Reviewing the films Agora and Océans, Firestein wonders why they seem to have had hard passages from Europe to the United States.
2010 - American Association for the Advancement of Science | Science
Tierney M. Thys, John Aitchison,
... eg Planet Earth II, Frozen Planet), and for Disneynature, Netflix, National Geographic, and Discovery. His latest book – ...
Tópico(s): Digital Storytelling and Education
2018 - Wiley | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment