03637cam a22003254a 4500999001700000001000900017005001700026008004100043010001700084016001800101020002900119020002600148035002400174040006900198042000800267050003200275100002100307245011800328260005300446300003300499504007700532505097000609520136201579520012002941650004103061650002003102700002303122942003903145952012703184  c22666d226661679100820170124145112.0110523s2011    nbua     bq   001 0 eng    a  20110218947 a0159037282Uk  a9780803235120 (hardback)  a0803235127 (hardback)  a(OCoLC)ocn712115633  aDLCcDLCdYDXdBTCTAdYDXCPdBWXdIADdUKMGBdIADdCDXdCOOdDLC  apcc00aNC1766.5    b .E58M87 20111 aMurray, Robin L.10aThat's all folks? :becocritical readings of American animated features /cRobin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.  aLincoln :bUniversity of Nebraska Press,cc2011.  aix, 283 p. :bill. ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-275), filmography and index.0 aIntroduction: A foundation for contemporary enviro-toons -- Bambi and Mr. Bug Goes to Town: nature with or without us -- Animal liberation in the 1940s and 1950s: what Disney does for the animal rights movement -- The UPA and the environment: a modernist look at urban nature -- Animation and live action: a demonstration of interdependence? -- Rankin/Bass Studios, nature, and the supernatural: where technology serves and destroys -- Disney in the 1960s and 1970s: blurring boundaries between human and nonhuman nature -- Dinosaurs return: evolution outplays Disney's binaries -- DreamWorks and human and nonhuman ecology: escape or interdependence in Over the Hedge and Bee Movie -- Pixar and the case of WALL-E: moving between environmental adaptation and sentimental nostalgia -- 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?  a"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.  a"Examines animated films in the cultural and historical context of environmental movements"--Provided by publisher. 0aEnvironmentalism in motion pictures. 0aAnimated films.1 aHeumann, Joseph K.  2lcccBOOKShNC1766.5  .E58M87 2011  00102lcc4070aMUCbMUCcGENd2017-01-24eDonation(BFA)l0oNC1766.5  .E58M87 2011p32066r2017-01-24w2017-01-24yBOOKS