Don t cry for me, Crying Indian, says Finis Dunaway in his brilliant and accessible new book about media depictions of environmental crises and environmental consciousness. Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events like the famous Crying Indian, Earth Day, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, the Exxon Valdez disaster, and Walt Kelly s cartoon character Pogo, who met the enemy (who is us). "Seeing Green" is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in ...
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Don t cry for me, Crying Indian, says Finis Dunaway in his brilliant and accessible new book about media depictions of environmental crises and environmental consciousness. Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events like the famous Crying Indian, Earth Day, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, the Exxon Valdez disaster, and Walt Kelly s cartoon character Pogo, who met the enemy (who is us). "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. They have also been used to tell us that we are all to blame for the environmental state of the worldas if choosing not to recycle the newspaper and dumping millions of barrels of oil into the sea occupy the same moral realm. Dunaway heightens our awareness of how depictions of environmental catastrophes are constructed, manipulated, and fought over."
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