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

Title
Film and the American moral vision of nature : Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney / Ronald B. Tobias.
Author
Tobias, Ron.
Publication
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011.

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Description
xix, 250 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
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
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- 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.
ISBN
  • 9781611860016 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1611860016 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010052292
OCLC
  • 687650045
  • SCSB-11413342
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library