Open this publication in new window or tab >>2023 (English)In: The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality / [ed] Bruhn, J., López-Varela, A., de Paiva Vieira, M., Palgrave Macmillan, 2023Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Taking the human-induced ecological crisis as our starting point, in this chapter we discuss the implications of how this crisis is communicated. The knowledge and data produced by the natural sciences is mediated and communicated in different ways to the public and after a review of central traditions relating to this question, we argue that there is a need for a theory of comparison that can encompass different disciplines and aesthetic forms of media. We combine an intermedial toolbox of terms introduced by Lars Elleström, most notably his concept of “transmediation,” with the field of ecocriticism that originates in literary studies but today encompasses a broader definition of media representing the ecological crisis. This we call intermedial ecocriticism, which has theoretical and methodological implications for the analysis and comparison of ecomedia. We exemplify this by discussing existing research from intermedial scholars as well as with a case study regarding representations of future food cultures from the website Eatforum.org and in the sci-fi movie Blade Runner 2049.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Keywords
Intermediality, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, ecological crisis
National Category
Arts Languages and Literature
Research subject
Humanities
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-123115 (URN)10.1007/978-3-030-91263-5_52-1 (DOI)9783030912635 (ISBN)9783030912635 (ISBN)
Note
First Online: 25 June 2023
2023-07-042023-07-042023-08-31Bibliographically approved