Shooting in the Wild by Chris Palmer

Shooting in the Wild by Chris Palmer

Wildlife and nature films are a hugely popular entertainment genre- networks such as Animal Planet and Discovery are stars in the cable television universe, viewers flock to IMAX theaters to see jaw-dropping footage from the wild, and the venerable BBC still scores triumphs with series such as Planet Earth. As cinematic technology brings ever more breathtaking images to the screen, and as our direct contact with nature diminishes, an ever-expanding audience craves the indirect experience of wild nature that these films provide.

But this success has a dark side, as Chris Palmer reveals in his authoritative and engrossing report on the wildlife film business. A veteran producer and film educator, Palmer looks past the headlines about TV host Steve Irwin's death by stingray and filmmaker Timothy Treadwell falling prey to his beloved grizzlies, to uncover a more pervasive and troubling trend toward sensationalism, extreme risk-taking, and even abuse in wildlife films. He tracks the roots of this trend to the early days of the genre, and he profiles a new breed of skilled, ethical filmmakers whose work enlightens as well as entertains, and who represent the future that Palmer envisions for the industry he loves.

Chris Palmer has over 300 hours of original programming for prime-time television and the giant-screen IMAX sector, including the Disney Channel, TBS, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, and PBS. Palmer is the President of the One World One Ocean Foundation and the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation. He and his colleagues have won numerous honors, including two Emmys, an Oscar nomination, and the International Wildlife Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award for the Media. In 2005, a year after joining American University's full-time faculty as Distinguished Film Producer in Residence, he launched the Center for Environmental Filmmaking.

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ISBN 13	9781578051489
ISBN 10	1578051487
Title	Shooting in the Wild
Author	Chris Palmer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Counterpoint
Year published	2010-05-11
Number of pages	264
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