"Can You Sing with All the Voices of the Mountains?" Environmental Ethics in American Animation

Making young age groups conscious about environmental problems and responsibility does not only fall on the shoulders of schools and parents but also on media and film-makers. The changing methods of representations of varying environmental issues are discussed here, taking into consideration that in the past 70 years, animation-making has experienced several ideological shifts and has opened up a channel to address adults as well. This switch makes it possible to incorporate themes from the field of environment. To exemplify their representation, films from the 1990s onward are discussed from mostly the palette of American animation, with some previously produced film examples as a historical reference.

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