Robin L Murray, Joseph K Heumann

That's All Folks?

Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Examines animated films in the cultural and historical context of environmental movements"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780803235120
• ISBN-10: 0803235127
• Artikelnr.: 33621480

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: A Foundation for Contemporary Enviro-toons 
1. Bambi and Mr. Bug Goes to Town: Nature with or without Us 
2. Animal Liberation in the 1940s and 1950s: What Disney Does for the
Animal Rights Movement 
3. The 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 : 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