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Description

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.
List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ecosee: A First Glimpse
Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey

Part 1. How We See

1. A Rhetorical Look at Ecosee
Sean Morey

2. Ecoporn: On the Limits of Visualizing the Nonhuman
Bart H. Welling

3. Ecology, Images, and Scripto-Visual Rhetoric
Heather Dawkins

4. Field Guides to Birds: Images and Image/Text Positioned as Reference
Spencer Schaffner

5. Eduardo Kac: Networks as Medium and Trope
Simone Osthoff

Part 2. Seeing Animals

6. From Dead Meat to Glow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: Seeing “the Animal Question” in Contemporary Art
Cary Wolfe

7. “They’re There, and That’s How We’re Seeing It”: Olly and Suzi in the Antarctic”
Steve Baker

8. Connecting with Animals: The Aquarium and the Dreamer Fish
Eleanor Morgan

Part 3. Seeing Landscapes and Seascapes

9. Farming on Irish Film: An Ecological Reading
Pat Brereton

10. Postcards from the Andes: Politics of Representation in a Reimagined Perú
Teresa E. P. Delfín

11. That’s Not a Reef. Now That’s a Reef: A Century of (Re)Placing the Great Barrier Reef
Kathryn Ferguson

Part 4. Seeing in Space and Time

12. Evading Capture: The Productive Resistance of Photography in Environmental Representation
Quinn R. Gorman

13. The Test of Time: McLuhan, Space, and the Rise of Civilization
Tom Tyler

14. Seeing the Climate?: The Problematic Status of Visual Evidence in Climate Change Campaigning
Julie Doyle

15. Afterword
M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Applied ecology
• Discourse analysis
• Communication studies
• Stylistics
• Semantics

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 16 avril 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438425955
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 89 Mo

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Ecosee

Image, Rhetoric, Nature

Edited by SIDNEY I. DOBRIN and SEAN MOREY

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2009 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ecosee : image, rhetoric, nature / edited by Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey.  p. cm.  Includes bibliographical references and index.  ISBN 978-1-4384-2583-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)  ISBN 978-1-4384-2584-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2. Ecology. 1. Environmental policy. 3. Imagery. 4. Rhetoric. 5. Nature study. I. Dobrin, Sidney I., 1967– II. Morey, Sean, 1979–

HC79.E5E289 2009 333.7—dc22

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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This one’s for Carla Blount, because for eleven years she has been there for me, making sure I get my work done, and I can never say “thank-you” enough for that. —S. I. D.

To my parents, Frank and Susan, who never told me what to think but instead let me see for myself. —S. M.

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List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: Ecosee: A First Glimpse  Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey

Part 1 How We See

Chapter 1 A Rhetorical Look at Ecosee  Sean Morey

Chapter 2 Ecoporn: On the Limits of Visualizing the Nonhuman Bart H. Welling

Chapter 3 Ecology, Images, and Scripto-Visual Rhetoric  Heather Dawkins

Chapter 4 Field Guides to Birds: Images and Image/Text Positioned as Reference  Spencer Schaffner

Chapter 5 Eduardo Kac: Networks as Medium and Trope Simone Osthoff

Part 2 Seeing Animals

Chapter 6 FromDead MeatGlow-in-the-Dark Bunnies: to Seeing “the Animal Question” in Contemporary Art Cary Wolfe

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Chapter 7 “They’re There, and That’s How We’re Seeing It”: Olly and Suzi in the Antarctic Steve Baker

Chapter 8 Connecting with Animals: The Aquarium and the Dreamer Fish Eleanor Morgan

Part 3

Seeing Landscapes and Seascapes

Chapter 9 Farming on Irish Film: An Ecological Reading  Pat Brereton

Chapter 10 Postcards from the Andes: Politics of Representation in a Reimagined Perú Teresa E. P. Delfín

Chapter 11 That’s Not a Reef. NowThat’s a Reef: A Century of (Re)Placing the Great Barrier Reef Kathryn Ferguson

Part 4

Seeing in Space and Time

Chapter 12 Evading Capture: The Productive Resistance of Photography in Environmental Representation Quinn R. Gorman

Chapter 13 The Test of Time: McLuhan, Space, and the Rise ofCivilization  Tom Tyler

Chapter 14 Seeing the Climate?: The Problematic Status of Visual Evidence in Climate Change Campaigning  Julie Doyle

Chapter 15 Afterword  M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer

List of Contributors

Index

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