Reel Nature by Gregg Mitman

Reel Nature by Gregg Mitman

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Zusammenfassung

Examines how wildlife filmmaking changed in reaction to the struggle between portraying good science and gaining a popular audience.

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Reel Nature by Gregg Mitman

Examines how wildlife filmmaking changed in reaction to the struggle between portraying good science and gaining a popular audience.

"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."

* Booklist *

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.

SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780295988863
ISBN 10 029598886X
Titel Reel Nature
Autor Gregg Mitman
Serie Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University of Washington Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2009-05-26
Seitenanzahl 320
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