Turning Nature and its Mediators into Spectacles: The Camera's Role in Shaping Perceptions in Freek's Wilde Wereld
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2024-07-05
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The principal characteristic of wildlife films is spectacularizing nature. Presenters and filmmakers depict nature in these spectacular ways not only to entertain and educate the audience but also to construct an identity for themselves. This thesis aims to contribute to the academic literature on wildlife programs by analyzing the previously unexamined show Freek’s Wilde Wereld. The analysis focused on how filmmaking techniques turn images of nature into spectacles and how these representations are used to construct an identity for the filmmakers. First, the formal devices used to pervert the basic reality of nature into a spectacle were identified and analyzed across multiple episodes. Second, it was illustrated how these spectacularized representations functioned to establish an identity for both Vonk and the filmmakers. In Freek’s Wilde Wereld, nature is portrayed as both adventurously dangerous and exotically wondrous, while Vonk is established as this fearless, adventurous animal expert, responsible for nature.
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