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.
Relates and studies two salient aspects of American life from a rhetorical and critical perspective: popular culture and environmental issues.
Focusing on images of nature in American popular culture, the 11 essays of this collection discuss topics that include the translation of the theories of Kenneth Burke, author of The Good Life , on a cable tv program of the same name; the environmental messages promoted on The Simpsons; the National Parks edition of Monopoly; and Hollywood's vision of rural life. The contributors teach communication in the US; one is a graduate student. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
