Film And The American Moral Vision of Nature

by Tobias, Ronald B.

• ISBN13: 9781611860016
• ISBN10: 1611860016
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

With his square, bulldoggish stature, signature rimless glasses, and inimitable smile - part grimace, part snarl - Theodore Roosevelt was an unforgettable figure, imprinted on the American memory through photographs, the chiseled face of Mount Rushmore, a

Author Biography

Ronald B. Tobias is a Professor of Science and Natural History Filmmaking in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University. He has produced, written, and directed more than thirty films, many of which have appeared on PBS, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Tales of Dominion	p. 1
The Plow and the Gun	p. 19
Picturing the West, 1883-1893	p. 29
American Idol, 1898	p. 49
The End of Nature, 1903	p. 65
African Romance	p. 83
The Dark Continent	p. 103
When Cowboys Go to Heaven	p. 115
Transplanting Africa	p. 129
Of Ape-Men, Sex, and Cannibal Kings	p. 145
Adventures in Monkeyland	p. 157
Nature, the Film	p. 173
The World Scrubbed Clean	p. 181
Notes	p. 197
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 245
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