Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images

2016/02/22 by Ott, Cindy · 1 voice · 2 citations
Environmental Science · #American Environmental and Regional History

paper · doi:10.1093/jahist/jav736

openalex publication_date 2016/02/22 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

"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

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