Visual environmental communication / edited by Anders Hansen and David Machin
- Published:
- [New York] : Routledge, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Researching Visual Environmental Communication / David Machin -- 2.Visualizing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Debate / Elizabeth Anne Gervais Schwarz -- 3.Imaging Toxins / Jennifer Peeples -- 4.Selling Nature in a Resource-Based Economy: Romantic/Extractive Gazes and Alberta's Bituminous Sands / Geo Takach -- 5."Single-minded, compelling, and unique": Visual Communications, Landscape, and the Calculated Aesthetic of Place Branding / Nicole Porter -- 6.The Nature of Time: How the Covers of the World's Most Widely Read Weekly News Magazine Visualize Environmental Affairs / Bruno Takahashi -- 7.Sporting Nature(s): Wildness, the Primitive, and Naturalizing Imagery in MMA and Sports Advertisements / Matthew P. Ferrari -- 8.Mobilizing Artists: Green Patriot Posters, Visual Metaphors, and Climate Change Activism / Brian Cozen.
- Summary:
- In 2008, the editors published a well-cited journal paper arguing that while scholarly work on media representations of environmental issues had made substantial progress in textual analysis there had been much less work on visual representations. This is surprising given the increasingly visual nature of media and communication, and in light of emerging evidence that the environment is visualized through the use of increasingly symbolic and iconic images. Addressing these matters, this volume marks out the present state of the field and contains chapters that represent fresh and exciting high quality scholarly work now emerging on visual environmental communication. These include a range of fascinating and often alarming topics which draw on a variety of methods and forms of visual communication. The book demonstrates that research needs to think much more widely about what we mean by the 'visual' which plays a massive yet under-researched role in the politics and ideology of public understanding and misunderstanding of and the environment and environmental problems. The book is of relevance to students and researchers in media and communication studies, cultural studies, film and visual studies, geography, sociology, politics and other disciplines with an interest in the politics of visual environmental communication. This book was published as a special issue of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 1138803758
9781138803756 - Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the New York Times Libraries Endowment; 2014
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