Film and the American moral vision of nature
Subtitle: Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney
By: Ronald B. Tobias
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781611860016
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy of nature; Nature in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tales of dominion; title: The plow and the gun; title: Picturing the West, 1883-1893; title: American idol, 1898; title: The end of nature; title: African romance; title: The dark continent; title: When cowboys go to heaven; title: Transplanting Africa; title: Of ape-men, sex, and cannibal kings; title: Adventures in monkeyland; title: Nature, the film; title: The world scrubbed clean.