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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457290503321

Autore

Tobias Ron

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-62895-166-4

1-60917-226-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/636

Soggetti

Nature in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

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

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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