Bad environmentalism : irony and irreverence in the ecological age /
"Bad Environmentalism examines how contemporary artists identify and respond to the ironies and absurdities surrounding environmental activism with their work in film, reality TV, poetry, fiction, performance art, and standup comedy. Focusing on texts such as the TV show Wildboyz and film serie...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. "I'm No Botanist, But . . .": Irony, Ecocinema, and the Problem of Expert Knowledge; 2. "So Much to See, So Little to Learn": Perverting Nature/Wildlife Programming; 3. Climate Change Is a Drag and Camping Can Be Campy: On Queer Environmental Performance; 4. Animatronic Indians and Black Folk Who Don't: Rewriting Racialized Environmental Affect; 5. Gas-Guzzling, Beer-Chugging Tree Huggers: Toward Trashy Environmentalisms; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
