Green Media and Popular Culture An Introduction

by Parham, John

• ISBN13: 9781137009470
• ISBN10: 1137009470
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-12-18
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of 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: 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