That's all folks? ecocritical readings of American animated features /

"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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Main Author: Murray, Robin L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Heumann, Joseph K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
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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?.