@article{459568,
      author = {Murray, Robin L. and Heumann, Joseph K.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/459568},
      title = {That's all folks? ecocritical readings of American  animated features / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Nebraska Press,},
      abstract = {"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.},
      recid = {459568},
      pages = {ix, 283 p. :},
      address = {Lincoln [Neb.] :},
      year = {2011},
}