That's all folks?
Subtitle: ecocritical readings of American animated features
By: Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
Contributors: Heumann, Joseph K.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780803235120
Subjects: Animated films; Environmentalism in motion pictures
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275), filmography and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A foundation for contemporary enviro-toons; title: Bambi and Mr. Bug Goes to Town: nature with or without us; title: Animal liberation in the 1940s and 1950s: what Disney does for the animal rights movement; title: The UPA and the environment: a modernist look at urban nature; title: Animation and live action: a demonstration of interdependence?; title: Rankin/Bass Studios, nature, and the supernatural: where technology serves and destroys; title: Disney in the 1960s and 1970s: blurring boundaries between human and nonhuman nature; title: Dinosaurs return: evolution outplays Disney's binaries; title: DreamWorks and human and nonhuman ecology: escape or interdependence in Over the Hedge and Bee Movie; title: Pixar and the case of WALL-E: moving between environmental adaptation and sentimental nostalgia; title: The Simpsons Movie, Happy Feet, and Avatar: the continuing influence of human, organismic, economic, and chaotic approaches to ecology; title: Conclusion: Animation's movement to green?