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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gries, Laurie E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780874219784

0874219787

OCLC:

903985613