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Film and the American moral vision of nature : Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney / Ronald B. Tobias.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.N38 T53 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tobias, Ronald B., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Philosophy of nature.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- Philosophy of nature--United States--History--19th century.
- Philosophy of nature--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Tobias (science and natural history filmmaking, Montana State U.) surveys the histories of men and women whose ideologies shaped the American public image of nature through the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. His topics include the plow and the gun, American idol 1898, African romance, when cowboys go to heaven, adventures in monkeyland, and the world scrubbed clean. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Tales of dominion
- The plow and the gun
- Picturing the West, 1883-1893
- American idol, 1898
- The end of nature
- African romance
- The dark continent
- When cowboys go to heaven
- Transplanting Africa
- Of ape-men, sex, and cannibal kings
- Adventures in monkeyland
- Nature, the film
- The world scrubbed clean.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611860016
- 1611860016
- OCLC:
- 687650045
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