Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment
This blog explores popular film and media and their relationship to the environment.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
The Incredible Mr. Limpet and Interdependence
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet reinforces interdependent relationships between live action and animation, since in the film an animated fis...
Friday, June 21, 2019
Orthodox Nature in Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959)
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Whereas studios like UPA and Rankin/Bass embraced modernism, thematically, aesthetically, or both, Disney Studios maintained its conf...
The Secret of NIMH (1982) and Animal Rights
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Disney films from the 1940s and 1950s that grapple with animal treatment may range from those advocating animal rights, sometimes at ...
Friday, June 7, 2019
Lady and the Tramp (1955) and Animal Welfare
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Lady and the Tramp connects human and nonhuman nature by focusing on domesticated dogs. Although dogs are “imprisoned” by dogcatch...
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Alice in Wonderland and The Call for Separation
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Alice in Wonderland demonstrates the need to separate the human world from the world of the imagination and, in so doing, argues for...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The Advantures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) and Animal Rights Arguments
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad includes two distinctly different views, one of nonhuman and the other of human nature. The ...
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Enviro-Toons?
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Enviro-toons—animated shorts and feature films with ecology at their center—ask an audience to re-perceive everyday issues, themes, a...
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