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Enviro-toons : green themes in animated cinema and television / Deidre M. Pike.
- 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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Book/Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.E78 P55 2012 | Off-site |
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
- 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