ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two big screen long format documentaries, created for mainstream circuits, aimed to impact on global audiences by acknowledging the production of many other visual formats of climate change movies. It analyses the portrayal of climate change risks through cinema, which proposes to denominate climate change-ism' discourse. The chapter offers an exploration of the few existing analyses about eco-environmental films, which gives an indication of the insufficient discussion in this respect, and proposes a framework approach to climate change discourse in films. It works with the assumption that climate change films are developing a particular discourse in order to contribute to the formation of public opinion. For the content analysis the four main broadsheets of the UK were selected to measure the influence of the films at national level, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph.
