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Wildlife Films

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Description for Wildlife Films Paperback. If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world - particularly wild animals. This work traces the genealogy of the nature film, from its origins as the "animal locomotion" studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: APF; WNC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.

If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world—particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by national and cable networks such as PBS and the Discovery Channel provides millions of viewers with their only experience of the wilderness and its inhabitants.
The very films that so many viewers take as accurate portrayals of wildlife, however, have evolved primarily as a form of entertainment, following the established codes and conventions of narrative exposition. The result ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812217285
SKU
V9780812217285
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About Derek Bousé
Derek Bouse received his doctorate from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a filmmaker residing in Austria.

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"Quite brilliant... This fascinating book will interest all audiences."-Choice

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