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

Title: That's all folks? : ecocritical readings of American animated features / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.
Author: Murray, Robin L.
Publication: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Heumann, Joseph K.

Description

ix, 283 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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"--Provided by publisher.
"Examines animated films in the cultural and historical context of environmental movements"--Provided by publisher.

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Call Number

MFL 11-9000

ISBN

LCCN

2011021894

OCLC

YBP 2011021894

Author

Murray, Robin L.

Title

That's all folks? : ecocritical readings of American animated features / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.

Imprint

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Heumann, Joseph K.

Research Call Number

MFL 11-9000