03013nam 2200625 a 450 991077908100332120230126202823.01-62895-166-41-60917-226-4(CKB)2550000000086956(EBL)1672289(SSID)ssj0000599097(PQKBManifestationID)12247294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000599097(PQKBWorkID)10596270(PQKB)10226947(MiAaPQ)EBC3338234(OCoLC)778436396(MdBmJHUP)muse18393(Au-PeEL)EBL3338234(CaPaEBR)ebr10527166(EXLCZ)99255000000008695620101210d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFilm and the American moral vision of nature[electronic resource] Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney /Ronald B. TobiasEast Lansing Michigan State University Pressc20111 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61186-001-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index.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. 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, andNature in motion picturesMotion picturesMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesMotion picturesSocial aspectsUnited StatesPhilosophy of natureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPhilosophy of natureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNature in motion pictures.Motion picturesMoral and ethical aspectsMotion picturesSocial aspectsPhilosophy of natureHistoryPhilosophy of natureHistory791.43/636Tobias Ron1478765MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779081003321Film and the American moral vision of nature3694571UNINA