Derek Bousé
Biographic Data
| ID | 91093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Bousé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Bousé |
| SIGNATURE | BOUSÉ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
False intimacy
This essay explores the uses of the close-up shot in wildlife films and television shows, raising important questions about the scientific truth value of visual narratives that use this camera technique common in fictional films and television. The close-up shot creates a false intimacy between the human audience and the animal subjects, and among the dangerous results of the technique is the impression that animals have human-like thoughts and e…
To the Editor
To the Editor
This paper discusses how insights from constructivist studies on the place of context, reflexivity, and framing in studies of public understanding of science may be applied within a survey framework. By emphasizing the role that images or ideologies of science play in science policy discourse, surveys are conceptualized as a means to map the social pervasiveness of such ideologies. It is argued that survey results may contribute to a broadening o…
Restoring the Photographed Past
This article points to cases around the world in which old photographs have been used as the basis for restoring damaged or destroyed public treasures to their "original" condition. The author asks, however, whether photographs can really be reliable historical documents of the past of some object or place that is much older than the art of photography itself. Among his conclusions is that in historical restoration efforts, photographic "evidence…
Wildlife Films
If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world—particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by national and cable networks such as PBS and the Discovery Channel provides millions of viewers with their only experience of the wilderness and its inhabitants. The very films…
Are wildlife films really “nature documentaries”
(1998). Are wildlife films really “nature documentaries”? Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 116-140
Culture as Nature
Restoring the Photographed Past
This article points to cases around the world in which old photographs have been used as the basis for restoring damaged or destroyed public treasures to their "original" condition. The author asks, however, whether photographs can really be reliable historical documents of the past of some object or place that is much older than the art of photography itself. Among his conclusions is that in historical restoration efforts, photographic "evidence…
Culture as Nature
Culture as Nature
Are wildlife films really “nature documentaries”
(1998). Are wildlife films really “nature documentaries”? Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 116-140
Wildlife Films
If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world—particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by national and cable networks such as PBS and the Discovery Channel provides millions of viewers with their only experience of the wilderness and its inhabitants. The very films…
To the Editor
This paper discusses how insights from constructivist studies on the place of context, reflexivity, and framing in studies of public understanding of science may be applied within a survey framework. By emphasizing the role that images or ideologies of science play in science policy discourse, surveys are conceptualized as a means to map the social pervasiveness of such ideologies. It is argued that survey results may contribute to a broadening o…
Restoring the Photographed Past
This article points to cases around the world in which old photographs have been used as the basis for restoring damaged or destroyed public treasures to their "original" condition. The author asks, however, whether photographs can really be reliable historical documents of the past of some object or place that is much older than the art of photography itself. Among his conclusions is that in historical restoration efforts, photographic "evidence…
False intimacy
This essay explores the uses of the close-up shot in wildlife films and television shows, raising important questions about the scientific truth value of visual narratives that use this camera technique common in fictional films and television. The close-up shot creates a false intimacy between the human audience and the animal subjects, and among the dangerous results of the technique is the impression that animals have human-like thoughts and e…
To the Editor
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Wildlife (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Animal and Plant Science Education (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)