Enviro-toons green themes in animated cinema and television /

"This book takes an ecrocritical approach to analytical readings of animated feature films, short subjects and television shows. Beginning with the "simply subversive" environmental messages in cartoons of the 1920s to including the works of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. The appen...

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Main Author: PIke, Deidre M., 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: ecocriticism and animation
  • Simply subversive-Felix the cat
  • Fear and loathing in Bambi
  • Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie
  • Futurama's ecofeminist reading room
  • Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest
  • Tap dance of the penguins
  • Hovering humanity in Wall-E
  • Waking up from Avatar
  • Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki
  • Animation energy.