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 | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780295988863 |
| ISBN 10 | 029598886X |
| Title | Reel Nature |
| Author | Gregg Mitman |
| Series | Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Washington Press |
| Year published | 2009-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |