Ebook: Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature: Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney
Author: Ronald B. Tobias
- Tags: Performing Arts, Dance, Individual Directors, Magic & Illusion, Reference, Theater, Arts & Photography, History, Photography & Video, Arts & Photography, History & Criticism, Movies, Humor & Entertainment, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Archaeology, Essays, Historical Geography, Historical Maps, Historiography, Reference, Study & Teaching, History, Nature & Ecology, Animal Rights, Animals, Birdwatching, Conservation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Fauna, Field Guides, Forests & Rainforests, Lakes & Pond
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Michigan State University Press
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
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With his square, bulldoggish stature, signature rimless glasses, and inimitable smilepart grimace, part snarlTheodore Roosevelt was an unforgettable figure, imprinted on the American memory through photographs, the chiseled face of Mount Rushmore, and, especially, film. At once a hunter, explorer, naturalist, woodsman, and rancher, Roosevelt was the quintessential frontiersman, a man who believed that only nature could truly test and prove the worth of man. A documentary he made about his 1909 African safari embodied aggressive ideas of masculinity, power, racial superiority, and the connection between nature and manifest destiny. These ideas have since been reinforced by othersJesse Buff alo” Jones, Paul Rainey, Martin and Osa Johnson, and Walt Disney. Using Roosevelt as a starting point, filmmaker and scholar Ronald Tobias traces the evolution of American attitudes toward nature, attitudes that remain, to this day, remarkably conflicted, complex, and instilled with dreams of empire.
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