Seeing Green - The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images

"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.

Product details

• Authors: Finis Dunaway, Dunaway Finis
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9780226169903
• ISBN: 978-0-226-16990-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, The environment, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Science / Environmental Science