ECOPIETY: GREEN MEDIA AND THE DILEMMA OF ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE
Written by Sarah McFarland Taylor
Published by New York University Press
in 2019
ISBN: 9781479891313
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ECOPIETY: GREEN MEDIA AND THE DILEMMA OF ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE
Written by Sarah McFarland Taylor.
Stock no. 1823881
1st.
2019.
Softcover.
Nearly fine condition.
An absorbing examination of the intersections of environmental sensibilities, contemporary expressions of piety and devotion, and American popular culture. A physical copy printed by Lightning Source UK Ltd, a print on demand company. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w photos. 359 pages including index. ISBN: 9781479891313. Slight wear to lower front corner of covers and prelims.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Restorying the Earth: Media Intervention as Moral Interventions
- 2. Fifty Shades of Green: Moral Licensing, Offsets, and Transformative Works
- 3. "I Can't! It's a Prius": Purity, Piety, Pollution Porn, and Coal Rolling
- 4. Green is the New Black: Carbon-Sin Trackers, Reality TV, and Green Modeling
- 5. Vegetarian Vampires: Blood, Oil, Eros, and Monstrous Consumption
- 6. Composting a Life: Green Burial Marketing and Storied Corpses as "Media"
- 7. Expanding the Scope of Justice: Tattooing and Hip Hop as Ecomedia Witnessing Tools
- Conclusion. Storying the Future: Becoming Green Scheherazades in the Athropocene