
That's All Folks? : Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features.
Title:
That's All Folks? : Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features.
Author:
Murray, Robin L.
ISBN:
9780803239647
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (296 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- IntroductionA Foundation for Contemporary Enviro-toons -- 1. Bambi and Mr. Bug Goes to Town: Nature with or without Us -- 2. Animal Liberation inthe 1940s and 1950s: What Disney Does for the Animal Rights Movement -- 3. The UPA and the Environment: A Modernist Look at Urban Nature -- 4. Animation and Live Action: A Demonstration of Interdependence? -- 5. Rankin/Bass Studios,Nature, and the Supernatural: Where Technology Serves and Destroys -- 6. Disney in the 1960s and 1970s: Blurring Boundaries between Human and Nonhuman Nature -- 7. Dinosaurs Return: Evolution Outplays Disney's Binaries -- 8. DreamWorks and Human and Nonhuman Ecology: Escape or Interdependence in Over the Hedge and Bee Movie -- 9. Pixar and the Case of WALL-E: Moving between Environmental Adaptation and Sentimental Nostalgia -- 10. The Simpsons Movie, Happy Feet, and Avatar: The Continuing Influence of Human, Organismic, Economic, and Chaotic Approaches to Ecology -- Conclusion: Animation's Movement to Green? -- Filmography -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Robin L. Murray is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. Joseph K. Heumann is a professor emeritus at Eastern Illinois University. They are the coauthors of Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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