Film and the American Moral Vision of Nature: Theodore Roosevelt to Walt Disney

by Ronald B. Tobias

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611860016
• ISBN13: 9781611860016
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.0"