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Enviropop Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture

Edited by Mark Meister and Phyllis M. Japp

ISBN: 0-275-96928-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96928-8

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248 pages, exhibits

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 9/30/2002

List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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These essays present challenging and thought-provoking material that will be of prticular interest to scholars in the fields of cultural studies, communications and environmental sociology. Scholarship focusing on the ways in which popular culture and the environment influence each other will be of increasing importance in the coming years. Enviropop has set the stage for some fascinating academic dialogue on this front
—Alternatives Journal Spring 2004

Description: Although much scholarly and critical attention has been paid to the relationship between rhetoric and environmental issues, media and environmental issues, and politics and environmental issues, no book has yet focused on the relationship between popular culture and environmental issues. This collection of essays provides a rigorous and multifaceted rhetorical and critical perspective on the ways in which the language and imagery of nature is incorporated strategically into various popular culture texts--ranging from greeting cards to advertisements to supermarket tabloids. As a distinguished group of scholars reveals, our notions about the environment and environmentalism are both reflected in and shaped by our popular culture in fascinating ways never previously examined in an academic context. The consumptive vision of nature presented in these texts represents a wholly American view, one promoting leisure and comfort, and nature as the place to experience them. This "good life" attitude toward the environment often serves to commodify it, to render it little more than space in which to pursue conventional notions of the American dream. As such, the volume represents a bold and striking vision both of popular culture and of popular notions of an environment that can be either protected or just simply consumed.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Rationale for Studying Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture by Mark Meister and Phyllis M. Japp
When Hallmark Calls Upon Nature: Images of Nature in Greeting Cards by Diana L. Rehling
Monopoly, the National Parks Edition: Reading Neo-Liberal Simulacra by Abdy Opel
Cultivating the Agrarian Myth in Hollywood Films by Jean P. Retzinger
Primetime Subversion: The Environmental Rhetoric of the Simpsons by Anne Marie Todd
Purification through Simplification: Nature, the Good Life, and Consumer Culture by Phyllis M. Japp and Debra K. Japp
An Analsis of the "Tree-Hugger" Label by Mark DeLoach, Michael Bruner, and Josh Gossett
From Loch Ness Monsters to Global Warming: Framing Environmental Risk in a Supermarket Tabloid by Donnalyn Pompper
A Faint-Green Sell: Advertising and the Natural World by Julia Corbett
Environment as Consumer Icon in Advertising Fantasy by Diane Hope
Living Above It All: The Liminal Fantasy of Sport Utility Vehicle Advertisements by Richard K. Olsen, Jr.
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LC Card Number: 2002019622

LCC Class: P96

Dewey Class: 306


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