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Description for Reel Nature
Paperback. Examines how wildlife filmmaking changed in reaction to the struggle between portraying good science and gaining a popular audience. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; WNC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.
From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman's Reel Nature reveals how changing values, scientific developments, and new technologies have come to shape American encounters with wildlife on and off the big screen. Whether crafted to elicit thrills or to educate audiences about the real-life drama of threatened wildlife, nature films then and now have had an enormous impact on how Americans see, think about, consume, and struggle to protect animals across the globe.
For more information about the author go to: http://gmitman.com/
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295988863
SKU
V9780295988863
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
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99-16
About Gregg Mitman
Gregg Mitman is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Interim Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reviews for Reel Nature
"Mitman's research, nuanced and satisfying, contributes to both film theory and ecocritical theory and explores the ways in which they should not be separated."
Stephanie Lyells
Journal of Ecocriticism
"How the wildlife documentary got from Roosevelt to Disneyworld is a story of charlatans, hucksters, crooks, imaginative cameramen, brilliant zoology and shameless appeal to the sex and violence of life as cinema audiences have grown to expect it to be. Mitman . . . tells the American version of this lurid celluloid safari."
Tim Radford
The Guardian
"American wildlife film-makers . . . abandoned truth in favor of more alluring lode stars. Reel Nature is an admirable history of why they did so. . . . Very well told."
Stephen Mills
Times Literary Supplement
"While nature films have had a positive impact on our understanding of nature, the whole truth about our place in the web of life has been left on the cutting-room floor."
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Stephanie Lyells
Journal of Ecocriticism
"How the wildlife documentary got from Roosevelt to Disneyworld is a story of charlatans, hucksters, crooks, imaginative cameramen, brilliant zoology and shameless appeal to the sex and violence of life as cinema audiences have grown to expect it to be. Mitman . . . tells the American version of this lurid celluloid safari."
Tim Radford
The Guardian
"American wildlife film-makers . . . abandoned truth in favor of more alluring lode stars. Reel Nature is an admirable history of why they did so. . . . Very well told."
Stephen Mills
Times Literary Supplement
"While nature films have had a positive impact on our understanding of nature, the whole truth about our place in the web of life has been left on the cutting-room floor."
Booklist