Green Media and Popular Culture: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781137009463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str.

John Parham

Opis

A comprehensive survey of green media and popular culture, introducing the key debates surrounding green interpretations of film, TV, journalism, comedy, music and computer games. It is an original and thought-provoking exploration of the emerging field of environmental media studies.

Recenzje

“The book thus offers a corrective to certain outdated tendencies of ecocriticism and environmental activism, especially the idealisation of ‘pure’ nature. … Green Media and Popular Culture is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the recent past or possible futures of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities.” (Nicole Seymour, Green Letters. Vol. 20 (3), 2016)

Spis treści

Foreword.- 1. Embracing Contradiction: Green Popular Culture.- PART I: CONTRADICTION 2. Global and Eco-Cosmopolitan Film: 'Muddled Middles'.- 3. Green Television: Telling Tales.- 4. Green Journalism and Green Cultures.- PART II: ELASTICITY 5. Green Comedy: The Importance of Being Elastic.- 6. Popular Music: Reconnecting with the Environment.- 7. 'Eco-Cinema': Art Film and Documentary.- 8. Green Computer Games: To Play is to Inhabit.- 9. The 'Hope' of Green Animation.- Afterword.

O autorze

John Parham is Principal Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Worcester, UK and Associate Head (Research) in the Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts. He is co-editor of the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and his research focuses on the connections between popular culture, literature and ecology.

Blurb

Popular culture – both radical and mainstream – has an important role to play in supporting environmental awareness and translating ecological values in ways that are meaningful to our everyday lives.

This comprehensive survey of green media and popular culture introduces the reader to the key debates and theories surrounding green interpretations of popular film, television and journalism, as well as comedy, music, animation, and computer games. With stimulating and original case studies on U2, Björk, the animated films of Disney, the computer game Journey, and more, the text reveals the complicated and often contradictory relationship between the media and environmentalism.

Green Media and Popular Culture is a critical starting point for students of Media, Film and Cultural Studies, and anyone else researching and studying in the rapidly growing field of green media and cultural studies.