Nerd ecology : defending the earth with unpopular culture /

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Author / Creator:	Lioi, Anthony (Anthony Francis), author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. ©2016
Description:	1 electronic resource (ix, 226 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Environmental cultures series Environmental cultures series.
Subject:	Ecology in literature. Environmental sociology. Human ecology. Popular culture. Social ecology. Subculture. Social Environment Ecology in literature. Environmental sociology. Human ecology. Social ecology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588968

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ISBN:	9781472567642 1472567641 9781472567659 147256765X 1472567633 9781472567635
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Summary:	"Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, "Nerd Ecology" is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, The Hunger Games, and superhero comics such as Green Lantern and X-Men, Anthony Lioi maps out the development of nerd culture and its intersections with the most fundamental ecocritical themes. In this way Lioi finds in the narratives of unpopular culture--narratives in which marginalized individuals and communities unite to save the planet--the building blocks of a new environmental politics in tune with the concerns of contemporary ecocritical theory and practice."--Page 4 of cover.
Other form:	Print version: Nerd ecology London ; Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 1472567633

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