{"product_id":"mediating-nature-nils-lindahl-elliot-9780415391771","title":"Mediating Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMediating Nature\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopical 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nils Lindahl Elliot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415391776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415391771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.56h x 6.32w x 0.84d","brand":"Nils Lindahl Elliot","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064910229759,"sku":"9780415391771","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b7c409ef-4446-40e8-86bd-e5fe55118e9a.jpg?v=1768671859","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mediating-nature-nils-lindahl-elliot-9780415391771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}