Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film

by Gregg Mitman

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 twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674715713
• ISBN13: 9780674715714
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"