That's all folks? : ecocritical readings of American animated features / / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.
"Although some credit the environmental movement of the 1970s, with its profound impact on children's television programs and movies, for paving the way for later eco-films, the history of environmental expression in animated film reaches much further back in American history, as That'...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 283 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A foundation for contemporary enviro-toons
- Bambi and Mr. Bug Goes to Town: nature with or without us
- Animal liberation in the 1940s and 1950s: what Disney does for the animal rights movement
- The UPA and the environment: a modernist look at urban nature
- Animation and live action: a demonstration of interdependence?
- Rankin/Bass Studios, nature, and the supernatural: where technology serves and destroys
- Disney in the 1960s and 1970s: blurring boundaries between human and nonhuman nature
- Dinosaurs return: evolution outplays Disney's binaries
- DreamWorks and human and nonhuman ecology: escape or interdependence in Over the Hedge and Bee Movie
- Pixar and the case of WALL-E: moving between environmental adaptation and sentimental nostalgia
- The Simpsons Movie, Happy Feet, and Avatar: the continuing influence of human, organismic, economic, and chaotic approaches to ecology
- Conclusion: Animation's movement to green?.