That's All Folks?
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That's All Folks?

Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

That's All Folks?

Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features

About this book

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's All Folks? makes clear.
Countering the view that the contemporary environmental movement—and the cartoons it influenced—came to life in the 1960s, Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann reveal how environmentalism was already a growing concern in animated films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. From Felix the Cat cartoons to Disney's beloved Bambi to Pixar's Wall-E and James Cameron's Avatar, this volume shows how animated features with environmental themes are moneymakers on multiple levels—particularly as broad-based family entertainment and conveyors of consumer products. Only Ralph Bakshi's X-rated Fritz the Cat and R-rated Heavy Traffic and Coonskin, with their violent, dystopic representation of urban environments, avoid this total immersion in an anti-environmental consumer market.
Showing us enviro-toons in their cultural and historical contexts, this book offers fresh insights into the changing perceptions of the relationship between humans and the environment and a new understanding of environmental and animated cinema.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. IntroductionA Foundation for Contemporary Enviro-toons
  8. 1. Bambi and Mr. Bug Goes to Town: Nature with or without Us
  9. 2. Animal Liberation inthe 1940s and 1950s: What Disney Does for the Animal Rights Movement
  10. 3. The UPA and the Environment: A Modernist Look at Urban Nature
  11. 4. Animation and Live Action: A Demonstration of Interdependence?
  12. 5. Rankin/Bass Studios,Nature, and the Supernatural: Where Technology Serves and Destroys
  13. 6. Disney in the 1960s and 1970s: Blurring Boundaries between Human and Nonhuman Nature
  14. 7. Dinosaurs Return: Evolution Outplays Disney’s Binaries
  15. 8. DreamWorks and Human and Nonhuman Ecology: Escape or Interdependence in Over the Hedge and Bee Movie
  16. 9. Pixar and the Case of WALL-E: Moving between Environmental Adaptation and Sentimental Nostalgia
  17. 10. The Simpsons Movie, Happy Feet, and Avatar: The Continuing Influence of Human, Organismic, Economic, and Chaotic Approaches to Ecology
  18. Conclusion: Animation’s Movement to Green?
  19. Filmography
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index