Environment & Pop Culture

Catalog description

How is “the environment” presented in forms of popular cultural media like novels, movies/television, news stories, or popular music? What do popular representations of nature, climate change, and environmental crises suggest about our culture, politics, and society? What kinds of possibilities do particular envisionings of the future help to open up, enact, or foreclose? This course will consider these questions and more through a close study of various pop-cultural artifacts, equipping students with tools from cultural theory and critical analysis.