Archive Project Example: Conservation International’s “Nature’s Speaking”

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Conservation International produced a series of short films, each with a well-known actor giving “voice” to a particular aspect of non-human Nature. When we defined tropes the other day, I listed “personification” as an example of a trope, and these videos use personification to make something utterly-non-human a bit more human-sounding. There are, no doubt, other prominent tropes of the natural as we’ve discussed it in these  films. Take the intriguing mixture of sublime imagery and the feminization of nature in Julie Robert’s “Mother Nature” film. Or the vengeful wrath of Harrison Ford as “The Ocean.”

Citation:

“Conservation International Presents: Nature is Speaking.” Conservation International, 2016. http://www.conservation.org/nature-is-speaking/Pages/default.aspx. Accessed 17 Aug 2016.

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