Film and the American moral vision of nature : Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney / Ronald B. Tobias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobias, Ron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.

Philosophy of nature--United States--History--19th century.

Philosophy of nature.

Philosophy of nature--United States--History--20th century.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.

Roosevelt, Theodore.

Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.

Disney, Walt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With his square, bulldoggish stature, signature rimless glasses, and inimitable smile - part grimace, part snarl - Theodore Roosevelt was an unforgettable figure, imprinted on the American memory through photographs, the chiseled face of Mount Rushmore, and, especially, film. At once a hunter, explorer, naturalist, woodsman, and rancher, Roosevelt was the quintessential frontiersman, a man who believed that only nature could truly test and prove the worth of man. A documentary he made about his 1909 African safari embodied aggressive ideas of masculinity, power, racial superiority, and

Contents:

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index.

ISBN:

1-62895-166-4

1-60917-226-4

OCLC:

778436396