Still life with rhetoric : a new materialist approach for visual rhetorics / / Laurie E. Gries

• Autore: Gries Laurie E.
• Pubblicazione: Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2/2
• Soggetto topico: Visual communication; Rhetoric
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Current Matters: An Introduction; Part I : A New Materialist Rhetorical Approach in Theory; 2. Spatiotemporal Matters; 3. Agential Matters; Part II: A New Materialist Rhetorical Approach in Practice; 4. New Materialist Research Strategies; 5. Iconographic Tracking; Part III: Obama Hope Case Study; 6. Obama Hope, Presidential Iconography, and the 2008 Election; 7. Obama Hope, Fair Use, and Copyright; 8. Obama Hope, Parody, and Satire; 9. Obama Hope, Remix, and Global Activism; 10. Future Matters: A Conclusion; References ; About the AuthorIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: In Still Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized "visual text" functions within a specific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, genre, and location at viral rates. A four-part case study of Shepard Fairey's now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions, enter into various
• Titolo autorizzato: Still life with rhetoric
• ISBN: 0-87421-978-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788155703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II