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

• Autore: Tobias Ron
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2011
• 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.: 9910779081003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II