Simon R Troon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3534366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon R Troon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon R |
| FAMILY NAME | Troon |
| SIGNATURE | TROON S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9400-8251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Contesting the climate breakdown
David Pocock is a pivotal sporting, cultural and political figure in Australia. His profile as a former professional rugby union player, national team captain, and current federal politician affords him a unique platform to advocate for environmental protection and climate action. This article traces Pocock's transition from athlete to activist to politician by investigating two documentary-related productions. Deploying an ecocritical analysis t…
Cinematic Encounters with Disaster
Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood’s disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. It examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, differen…
Popular Environmental Media in Australia
Proliferating media content is key to public understanding and discussions about the environment and climate change. While scholarly interest in mediated environmental communication has been ample and multi-directional, the questions around media's impacts remain pressing and largely under-theorised. This paper uses an example of popular environmental media in Australia - i.e. media aimed at attracting wide audiences - to discuss how impact is pe…
How to care about coral rubble
This article analyses camera systems utilized in deep sea science, focussing on surveys and representations of deep sea coral devastated by trawl fishing in the South Pacific. Various custom, advanced camera technologies are used by governmental and non-governmental science agencies, including Australia’s CSIRO and Aotearoa New Zealand’s NIWA, to record footage of the deep water and the ocean floor in aid of monitoring marine ecosystems and traci…
The view from a body of water
This article critiques the representation of sea level rise in environmental documentaries, positioning Briar March’s There Once Was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho (2010) as an essential rejoinder to more prominent representations of oceanic climate change, exemplified in An Inconvenient Truth (2006). An array of recent documentary productions, seeking to draw attention to rising seas and other anthropogenic disasters, turn to the Pacific Ocean util…
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The view from a body of water
This article critiques the representation of sea level rise in environmental documentaries, positioning Briar March’s There Once Was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho (2010) as an essential rejoinder to more prominent representations of oceanic climate change, exemplified in An Inconvenient Truth (2006). An array of recent documentary productions, seeking to draw attention to rising seas and other anthropogenic disasters, turn to the Pacific Ocean util…
How to care about coral rubble
This article analyses camera systems utilized in deep sea science, focussing on surveys and representations of deep sea coral devastated by trawl fishing in the South Pacific. Various custom, advanced camera technologies are used by governmental and non-governmental science agencies, including Australia’s CSIRO and Aotearoa New Zealand’s NIWA, to record footage of the deep water and the ocean floor in aid of monitoring marine ecosystems and traci…
Cinematic Encounters with Disaster
Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood’s disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. It examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, differen…
Popular Environmental Media in Australia
Proliferating media content is key to public understanding and discussions about the environment and climate change. While scholarly interest in mediated environmental communication has been ample and multi-directional, the questions around media's impacts remain pressing and largely under-theorised. This paper uses an example of popular environmental media in Australia - i.e. media aimed at attracting wide audiences - to discuss how impact is pe…
Contesting the climate breakdown
David Pocock is a pivotal sporting, cultural and political figure in Australia. His profile as a former professional rugby union player, national team captain, and current federal politician affords him a unique platform to advocate for environmental protection and climate action. This article traces Pocock's transition from athlete to activist to politician by investigating two documentary-related productions. Deploying an ecocritical analysis t…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Oceanography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)