Sidney I. Dobrin & Sean Morey 
Ecosee [PDF ebook] 
Image, Rhetoric, Nature

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: Mc Luhan, 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

Über den Autor

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 Ph D candidate in English at the University of Florida.