The Rhetoric of Seduction, the Aesthetics of Waste, and Ecopornography in Edward Burtynsky’s Shipbreaking

This article analyzes Edward Burtynsky’s Shipbreaking (2009), a controversial photographic project that inquires into the representation of environmental corruption and economic ex¬ploitation faced by disenfranchised communities. The controversy depends on the incongruity between the aesthetization...

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Main Author: Daniela Fargione
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDUCatt 2016-12-01
Series:L'Analisi linguistica e letteraria
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Online Access:http://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Fargione-he-Rhetoric-of-Seduction-the-Aesthetics-of-Waste.pdf