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Autore: |
Tobias Ron
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Titolo: |
Film and the American moral vision of nature : Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney / / Ronald B. Tobias
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Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.43/636 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Film and the American moral vision of nature ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-62895-166-4 |
1-60917-226-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818170803321 |
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