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

By: Tobias, Ron.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011Description: xix, 250 p. : ill.Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 791.43/636 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
Item type Current location Call number Status Date due Barcode
791.43/636 (Browse shelf) Available

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

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.