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



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Autore: Tobias Ron Visualizza persona
Titolo: Film and the American moral vision of nature [[electronic resource] ] : Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney / / Ronald B. Tobias Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-62895-166-4
1-60917-226-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779081003321
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