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.
| Title |
Ecosee : image, rhetoric, nature / edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Albany, New York State : SUNY Press |
| Creation Date |
[2009] |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Ecosee: A First Glimpse -- How We See -- A Rhetorical Look at Ecosee -- Ecoporn -- Ecology, Images, and Scripto-Visual Rhetoric -- Field Guides to Birds -- Eduardo Kac -- Seeing Animals -- From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies -- “They’re There, and That’s How We’re Seeing It” -- Connecting with Animals -- Seeing Landscapes and Seascapes -- Farming on Irish Film -- Postcards from the Andes -- That’s Not a Reef. Now That’s a Reef -- Seeing in Space and Time -- Evading Capture -- The Test of Time -- Seeing the Climate? -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index |
| Extent |
1 online resource (xii, 327 p. ) ill. |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
2009 |
| National Library system number |
997010718121905171 |
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