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Mediating Nature (Hardcover, New)
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Mediating Nature (Hardcover, New)
Series: International Library of Sociology
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Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass
mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses,
technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current
ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the
existing research treats mass mediation as a matter of media
technologies, texts, or institutions, this text adopts a somewhat
different approach: it considers mass mediation as a historical
process by means of which the members of audiences and indeed the
public more generally came to be incorporated as observers in, and
of mass culture. This approach allows the book to investigate the
roles that a wide range of genres relating to nature played in
constructing senses of nature but also of mass culture itself. The
genres include landscape paintings and gardens, modern zoos,
photography, early cinema, nature essays, disaster and 'animal
attack' films, as well as wildlife documentaries on television. The
investigation develops what Lindahl Elliot describes as a 'social
semeiotic' approach that combines the semeiotic theory of Charles
Peirce with a historical sociology of cultural formations. Topical
and timely, this fascinating book will be of great interest to
students and researchers in the fields of media, sociology,
cultural geography and environmental studies.
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