Future in a Contested Time Regime: Prospects in Documentary Films on Climate Change

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Florentine Schoog

Future in a Contested Time Regime

Prospects in Documentary Films on Climate Change

Florentine Schoog

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English

Springer VS
28 August 2025

Documentary movies & films; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Global warming

Series: Kulturelle Figurationen: Artefakte, Praktiken, Fiktionen

The future is up for debate – not only, but particularly in light of climate change. The catastrophic outlook stands in stark contrast to the optimism of progress rooted in Western modernity. Thus, it is not just the prospect but the concept of future itself that must be rethought. This book explores modern society’s relationship to the future in view of climate change: Through a narratological discourse analysis, it provides an overview of how climate change has been narrated in 21st-century climate documentary films, with particular attention to their final sequences and the prospects they articulate. The study traces how these cinematic anticipations can be read as expressions of a contested time regime and derives novel figurations of future that mirror or confront the ideological conditions of the present.

By: Florentine Schoog
Imprint: Springer VS
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783658488147
ISBN 10: 365848814X
Series: Kulturelle Figurationen: Artefakte, Praktiken, Fiktionen
Pages: 297
Publication Date: 28 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction.- Present Futures and Time Regimes.- Climate Change as a Matter of Time.- Rationale: Documentaries in/as Narrative Discourse.- Procedure: From Typology to Final Scenes.- Four Types of Climate Documentary Film.- Exposition and Resolution in Climate Change Narration.- Figurations of Future.- Conclusion: Future-as-future.

Florentine Schoog is a sociologist and political educator based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Schoog´s research focuses on social theory, concepts of time and future, the climate crisis, and documentary film. Schoog has worked as managing editor at a journal on interdisciplinary gender studies and currently coordinates political education at a youth association.