1UPA within the Historical and Cultural Framework of Cold War America
They are all good men, men of the “movement,” as it was called, not the Communist movement but the surge of hope and confidence and determination that took over from the Great Depression, the anti-monopoly-capital movement, the common-man movement, the anti-colonialist movement of the thirties and forties.
Elia Kazan1
United Productions of America (UPA) is a historical, cultural and sociological artifact of its time. It is a product born from the ashes of the 1941 Disney strike. It took form during World War II, culminated in the first half of the 1950s and declined during the second half of the decade.
Historically, UPA studio reflects general occurrences in the animation ...
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