Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ronald Tobias.Brown, Jennifer Lee2013-06-252013-06-252010https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/986Pine rockland composition is a film that is part of the student's thesis project.I propose that contemporary natural history documentary films need to incorporate multiple cultural disciplines or perspectives like critical studies, environmental philosophy, dialectical biology, and documentary film theory. A multidisciplinary nature film creates a partnership representation of humans and nature absent in natural history documentary films. I use critical rhetoric and examples from contemporary nature films to argue that a partnership nature film showing humans as part of nature and both humans and nature with respect is compatible with conservation and incompatible with a profit-driven commercial broadcast system.enDocumentary filmsNature filmsThesisCopyright 2010 by Jennifer Lee Brown