Wildlife Films

by Derek Bouse

Book Overview

If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world--particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by national and cable networks such as PBS and the Discovery Channel provides millions of viewers with their only experience of the wilderness and its inhabitants.

The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217284
• ISBN13: 9780812217285
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"