Full Description
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, this engaging text reveals the complicated and often contradictory relationship between the media and environmentalism.
Examining the ways in which green media can influence the public's awareness of environmental issues, this innovative textbook 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.
Contents
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: ELASTICITY5. 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.
