Ecosee
eBook - PDF

Ecosee

Image, Rhetoric, Nature

  1. 339 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ecosee

Image, Rhetoric, Nature

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Ecosee by Sidney I. Dobrin, Sean Morey, Sidney I. Dobrin,Sean Morey in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Ecosee
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction. Ecosee: A First Glimpse
  6. Part 1. How We See
  7. 1. A Rhetorical Look at Ecosee
  8. 2. Ecoporn: On the Limits of Visualizing the Nonhuman
  9. 3. Ecology, Images, and Scripto-Visual Rhetoric
  10. 4. Field Guides to Birds: Images and Image/Text Positioned as Reference
  11. 5. Eduardo Kac: Networks as Medium and Trope
  12. Part 2. Seeing Animals
  13. 6. From Dead Meat toGlow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: Seeing “the Animal Question” in Contemporary Art
  14. 7. “They’re There, and That’s How We’re Seeing It: ”Olly and Suzi in the Antarctic
  15. 8. Connecting with Animals: The Aquarium and the Dreamer Fish
  16. 9. Farming on Irish Film: An Ecological Reading
  17. 10. Postcards from the Andes: Politics of Representation in a Reimagined PerĂș
  18. 11. That’s Not a Reef.Now That’s a Reef: A Century of (Re)Placing the Great Barrier Reef
  19. 12. Evading Capture: The Productive Resistance of Photography in Environmental Representation
  20. 13. The Test of Time: McLuhan, Space, and the Rise of Civilization
  21. 14. Seeing the Climate?The Problematic Status of Visual Evidence in Climate Change Campaigning
  22. 15. Afterword
  23. Contributors
  24. Index