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Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film

Americans have had a long-standing love affair with the wilderness. As cities grew and frontiers disappeared, film emerged to feed an insatiable curiosity about wildlife. The camera promised to bring us into contact with the animal world, undetected and unarmed. yet the camera's penetration of this world has inevitably brought human artifice and technology into the picture as well. In the first major analysis of American nature films in the 20th century, Gregg Mitman shows how our cultural values, scientific needs, and new technologies produced the images that have shaped our contemporary view of wildlife.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 263
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780674715714
  • Genres
  • animals
  • Release date
  • 1999