Seeing green
Subtitle: the use and abuse of American environmental images
By: Finis Dunaway
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780226169903; 9780226169934
Subjects: Environmentalism; Visual communication; Environmentalism in mass media; Environmentalism in art; Disasters in art
Description: "Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship," telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over"--Publisher info.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Dr. Spock, Daisy Girl, and DDT: a prehistory of environmental icons; title: Earth day and the visual politics of environmental crisis; title: From Santa Barbara to Earth Day; title: Gas masks: the ecological body under assault; title: Pogo: "we have met the enemy and he is us"; title: The crying Indian; title: The recycling logo and the aesthetics of environmental hope; title: Energy crises and emotional politics; title: Gas lines and power struggles; title: Nuclear meltdown I: the China syndrome; title: Nuclear meltdown II: Three Mile Island; title: Here comes the sun?; title: Carter's crisis and the road not taken; title: Green goes mainstream; title: Environmental spectacle in a neoliberal age; title: Meryl Streep, the Alar crisis, and the rise of green consumerism; title: The sudden violence of the Exxon Valdez; title: Global crisis, green consumers: the media packaging of Earth Day 1990; title: Conclusion: the strange career of an inconvenient truth.