Precis Group Activity

1. In his 2004 essay “Environmental Melodrama” author Steven Schwarze argues the importance of melodrama and highlights the best situations to use it  in protest. Schwarze introduces the structure of melodrama in the abstract and then spaces the details and examples through the rest of the paper.  He identifies that melodrama as “overused and understudied”. Schwarze hopes to give a more detailed explanation on melodrama and it many uses in protest. Schwarze aims his argument at anyone hoping to  utilize melodrama in a protest as well as general protesters.