Ultimately, it shows the consistency over time of collectively-held ecomemories and of the nostalgia for and longing to return to the lost edenic utopia of those memories. It illustrates the place of visual ecomedia within the larger environmental discourse over the last forty-plus years. Mencken, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Elbert Hubbard, W. Seuss Better Nothing Awful Someone Whole, Related Authors Mark Twain, H. This study not only examines the evolving discourse of environmental concerns during specific time periods, but also illustrates the connections and changes between differing periods. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. As an exploratory study, my ecomedia sampling is small: it includes: feature films (Silent Running, The Lord of the Rings, and Interstellar), television programs (Cosmos: A Personal Journey and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey), a picture book (The Lorax, as well as a short form-TV version and the feature film), and both corporate and environmental group advertisements and PSAs. Additionally, I contextualize my examples by discussing the concerns of the times in which the media appeared. Employing a combination of ecocriticism and memory and nostalgia studies, I conduct a discourse analysis of a variety of visual ecological media (ecomedia) examples from each of three time periods: 1970-1980, 1980-2004, and 2005-present. Supporting grants for early childhood intervention and treatment Increasing childrens community mental health services Increasing the availability of child. As part of this examination, I analyze the forms ecological memories take, how those memories are presented, and the role they play. In this study I examine the evolving discourse of environmental concerns within visual ecological media that utilizes what I define as ecological memory-ecomemory.
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