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...
Although some credit the environmental movement of the 1970s, with its profound impact on children s television programs and movies, for paving the wa...