04391nam 2200673 a 450 991046370700332120211007024945.01-283-89726-10-8122-0584-710.9783/9780812205848(CKB)3240000000068523(OCoLC)794702274(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642740(SSID)ssj0000676492(PQKBManifestationID)11415706(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676492(PQKBWorkID)10682938(PQKB)10907027(MiAaPQ)EBC3441988(MdBmJHUP)muse17944(DE-B1597)449316(OCoLC)1013954259(OCoLC)1037983179(OCoLC)1041982023(OCoLC)1045112620(OCoLC)1045501054(OCoLC)979756466(DE-B1597)9780812205848(Au-PeEL)EBL3441988(CaPaEBR)ebr10642740(CaONFJC)MIL420976(OCoLC)932312751(EXLCZ)99324000000006852320000307d2000 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWildlife films[electronic resource] /Derek BouséPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20001 online resource (297 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-1728-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. The Problem of Images --2. A Brief History of a Neglected Tradition --3. Science and Storytelling --4. The Classic Model --5. Family Values, Social Mores, Behavioral Norms --6. Nature Designed and Composed --Appendix: Chronological Highlights from the History of Wildlife and Natural History Films --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsIf, 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 that so many viewers take as accurate portrayals of wildlife, however, have evolved primarily as a form of entertainment, following the established codes and conventions of narrative exposition. The result has been not the representation of nature, but its wholesale reconstruction and reconfiguration according to film and television conventions, audience expectations, and the demands of competition in the media marketplace. Wildlife Films traces the genealogy of the nature film, from its origins as the "animal locomotion" studies that mark the very beginnings of motion pictures themselves, to the founding of the Animal Planet cable channel that boasts "all animals, all the time." The narrative and thematic elements that unite wildlife films as a genre have their roots not in the documentary film tradition, but in the older traditions of oral and written animal fables as reflections of human society. Derek Bousé contends that classic wildlife films often portray animal protagonists living in families modeled on an ideal of the human nuclear family and working in communities that resemble an ideal of bucolic human society. In these stories-presented as documentaries-animals are motivated by human emotions and conduct relationships according to human customs. This imposition of culturally satisfying narrative patterns upon the lives of animals has not only led to the misrepresentation of the natural world; it has promoted the notion that our values, our moral vision, our models of society and family structure derive from nature, rather than being cultural formations.Wildlife cinematographyElectronic books.Wildlife cinematography.778.5/3859Bousé Derek1045480MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463707003321Wildlife films2471799UNINA