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

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 

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.