Research Catalog

Title

Enviro-toons : green themes in animated cinema and television / Deidre M. Pike.

Author

Pike, Deidre M., 1965-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2012.

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Details

Description

vii, 203 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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 appendix provides a list of film and television titles honored with the Environmental Media Award for Animation"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Human ecology in motion pictures
• Environmentalism in motion pictures
• Animated films > History and criticism
• Environmentalism on television
• Human ecology on television
• Animated television programs > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780786465927 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786465921 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012013096

OCLC

• 761369400
• SCSB-12550802

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library