Abstract
Campbell explores the relationship between science, documentary and factual entertainment, discussing the conceptual and analytical framework that can be used to analyse contemporary factual entertainment television programmes. The chapter shows how factual programmes’ claims to the scientific and also documentary, are problematic, highlighting questions around the rise of so-called subjunctive documentary, linked to the use of CGI. The chapter will then focus on the use of animation and CGI in documentary. Campbell argues that a holistic analytical framework is needed that addresses these techniques used in factual television depictions of science, and that rather than as vehicles for the simple transmission of scientific knowledge, analysis shows how they often represent science as spectacular, awe-inspiring and sublime.
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