Description
A documentary he made about his 1909 African safari embodied aggressive ideas of masculinity, power, racial superiority, and the connection between nature and manifest destiny. These ideas have since been reinforced by others - Jesse "Buffalo" Jones, Paul Rainey, Martin and Osa Johnson, and Walt Disney.
Using Roosevelt as a starting point, filmmaker and scholar Ronald Tobias traces the evolution of American attitudes toward nature, attitudes that remain, to this day, remarkably conflicted, complex, and instilled with dreams of empire.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611860016
Author Ronald D. Tobias
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press