| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 250 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-244) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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, 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. |
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966. |
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Nature in motion pictures.
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Nature in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Philosophy of nature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Philosophy of nature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tobias, Ron. Film and the American moral vision of nature. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2010052292 |
| ISBN |
9781609172268 (electronic book) |
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1609172264 (electronic book) |
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9781628951660 |
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1628951664 |
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9781611860016 (alkaline paper) |
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1611860016 (alkaline paper) |
| Music No. |
MWT11397479 |
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