Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Tobias, Ronald B., 1946-

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xix, 250 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Film and the American moral vision of nature (Online)

Alternative Title

Film and the American moral vision of nature (Online)

Subject

• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
• Disney, Walt, 1901-1966
• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2010052292

OCLC

ssj0000599097

Author

Tobias, Ronald B., 1946-

Title

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

Imprint

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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