Tobias, Ron.

Film and the American moral vision of nature Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney / [electronic resource] : Ronald B. Tobias. - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2011. - xix, 250 p. : ill.

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. :
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2012.
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9781611860016 (alk. paper) 1611860016 (alk. paper) 9781609172268 (e-book)




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--History--United States--19th century.
Philosophy of nature--History--United States--20th century.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.N38 / T53 2011eb

791.43/636