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.