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By Robin L Murray

ISBN-10: 0803235127

ISBN-13: 9780803235120

Although a few credits the environmental flow of the Nineteen Seventies, with its profound impression on children’s tv courses and films, for paving the way in which for later eco-films, the historical past of environmental expression in lively movie reaches a lot additional again in American heritage, as That’s All Folks? makes clear.


Countering the view that the modern environmental movement—and the cartoons it influenced—came to existence within the Sixties, Robin L. Murray and Joseph ok. Heumann display how environmentalism used to be already a turning out to be main issue in lively movies of the Thirties, Nineteen Forties, and Fifties. From Felix the Cat cartoons to Disney’s loved Bambi to Pixar’s Wall-E and James Cameron’s Avatar, this quantity exhibits how lively gains with environmental topics are moneymakers on a number of levels—particularly as broad-based kin leisure and conveyors of shopper items. in basic terms Ralph Bakshi’s X-rated Fritz the Cat and R-rated Heavy Traffic and Coonskin, with their violent, dystopic illustration of city environments, steer clear of this overall immersion in an anti-environmental customer market.


Showing us enviro-toons of their cultural and historic contexts, this publication deals clean insights into the altering perceptions of the connection among people and the surroundings and a brand new knowing of environmental and lively cinema.

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