Personal Reflection Essay About Media & The Environment

ECS 375: Ecocinema Prof. Vaughan Spring 2018

Media & the Environment – Personal Reflection Essay

Write a 3-4 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.

3 pages, double-spaced and printed two-sided.

Due in class Thursday March 8.