Green Screen or Smokescreen? Hollywood’s Messages about Nature and the Environment
A study published recently in Environmental Communication has revealed the dual and conflicting messages in commercial films for young audiences about pivotal environmental problems and their potential resolution.The article observes an increasingly intimate relationship between children, consumer culture and commercial media in the U.S. It focuses in particular on how the environment is represented in popular animated Hollywood films, including The Lorax, Wall-E and Ice Age 2.The author, Dr. Ellen Elizabeth Moore,