Enviro-toons
Subtitle: green themes in animated cinema and television
By: Deidre M. Pike
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780786465927
Subjects: Animated films; Human ecology on television; Human ecology in motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Environmentalism on television; History and criticism; Animated television programs
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ecocriticism and animation; title: Simply subversive-Felix the cat; title: Fear and loathing in Bambi; title: Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie; title: Futurama's ecofeminist reading room; title: Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest; title: Tap dance of the penguins; title: Hovering humanity in Wall-E; title: Waking up from Avatar; title: Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki; title: Animation energy.