Ecosee

Image, Rhetoric, Nature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Examines the rhetorical role of images in communicating environmental ideas.How do supporters of the environmental movement manipulate and promote images of "nature" to achieve support and sympathy? From the Sierra Club's use of Ansel Adams's stark and pristine portraits of the western United States to close-ups of plastic bottles and dead fish floating in Rust Belt waterways, visual depictions of landscapes and the degradation caused by humans have profoundly shaped popular notions of environmentalism and the environment. Despite the rhetorical power of images connected with the environmental movement over the past forty years, scholarship in environmental communication has focused almost exclusively on verbal rather than visual rhetoric. Ecosee offers a deeper and fuller understanding of the communicative strategies and power of the environmental movement by looking closely at the visual rhetorics involved in photographs, paintings, television and filmic images, video games, and other forms of image-based media.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:339
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438425832

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Sidney I. Dobrin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida and has written or edited many books, including (with Christopher J. Keller) Writing Environments and (with Christian R. Weisser) Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition, both also published by SUNY Press. Sean Morey is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Florida.

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"…Ecosee … makes major contributions to analysis of the visual rhetorics in environmental discourses." — The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"By making visible just how visual communication plays a powerful role in shaping public opinions about the environment, Morey and Ecosee offer useful concepts and theories to continue studying visual rhetorics related to the environment … This collection particularly encourages us to think about research approaches that go beyond the textual and beyond the social constructionist perspective." — JAC"The contributors have provided thoughtful, smart essays that initiate a useful discussion for the field." — Stuart C. Brown, coeditor of Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America

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List of Figures AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ecosee: A First GlimpseSidney I. Dobrin and Sean MoreyPart 1. How We See 1. A Rhetorical Look at EcoseeSean Morey2. Ecoporn: On the Limits of Visualizing the NonhumanBart H. Welling3. Ecology, Images, and Scripto-Visual RhetoricHeather Dawkins4. Field Guides to Birds: Images and Image/Text Positioned as ReferenceSpencer Schaffner5. Eduardo Kac: Networks as Medium and TropeSimone OsthoffPart 2. Seeing Animals 6. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: Seeing "the Animal Question" in Contemporary ArtCary Wolfe 7. "They’re There, and That’s How We’re Seeing It": Olly and Suzi in the Antarctic"Steve Baker8. Connecting with Animals: The Aquarium and the Dreamer FishEleanor MorganPart 3. Seeing Landscapes and Seascapes 9. Farming on Irish Film: An Ecological ReadingPat Brereton10. Postcards from the Andes: Politics of Representation in a Reimagined PerúTeresa E. P. Delfín11. That’s Not a Reef. Now That’s a Reef: A Century of (Re)Placing the Great Barrier ReefKathryn FergusonPart 4. Seeing in Space and Time 12. Evading Capture: The Productive Resistance of Photography in Environmental RepresentationQuinn R. Gorman13. The Test of Time: McLuhan, Space, and the Rise of CivilizationTom Tyler14. Seeing the Climate?: The Problematic Status of Visual Evidence in Climate Change CampaigningJulie Doyle15. AfterwordM. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. PalmerList of ContributorsIndex