| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-244) and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Disney, Walt, 1901-1966.
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| SUBJECT |
Disney, Walt, 1901-1966 fast |
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 fast |
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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 -- Social aspects -- United States
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Philosophy of nature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Philosophy of nature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- General.
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Nature in motion pictures
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Philosophy of nature
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Landschaft Motiv
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Natur Motiv
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Film.
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Gesellschaft.
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Inszenierung.
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United States
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010052292 |
| ISBN |
9781609172268 |
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1609172264 |
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9781628951660 |
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1628951664 |
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