Book Launch: Environmental Ethics and Film

What: Book Launch ‘Environmental Ethics and Film’ by Pat Brereton

When: Monday 30th November at 7:00pm

Where: Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar

Guest speaker: Dr John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy, Queen’s University, Belfast

As world leaders gather in Paris for a crucial UN climate change summit, Pat Brereton, Head of School of Communications at Dublin City University, will launch his book entitled ‘Environmental Ethics and Film’, which looks at how a wide range of films and documentaries across world cinema pose provocative ethical questions related to the environment and address the environmental challenges of the future.

Part of the ‘Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media’ series, this book’s analysis reflects a growing interest on how film represents ecological issues, particularly the apocalyptic dangers of climate change, alongside other related environmental and ethical dilemmas. It also provides an extensive survey of a wide variety of films in which environmental ethics are both implicitly and often explicitly, expressed.

Dr John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen’s University, Belfast, will speak at the launch. John’s research interest lies in the politics of unsustainability – the fact that our current ways of life in terms of transport, food system and energy system are dependent upon dwindling carbon sources of energy, which are leading to problem sources in energy security, fuel poverty and indeed big issues like climate change.