Nerd ecology : defending the earth with unpopular culture /

Nerd ecology : defending the earth with unpopular culture /

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Author / Creator:Lioi, Anthony (Anthony Francis), author.
Imprint:London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
©2016
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Environmental cultures series
Environmental cultures series.
Subject:
Human ecology.
Social ecology.
Environmental sociology.
Ecology in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Environmental sociology.
Human ecology.
Social ecology.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12588968
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ISBN:9781472567642
1472567641
147256765X
9781472567659
9781472567635
1472567633
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2016).
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 marginalised 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.
Other form:Print version: Lioi, Anthony (Anthony Francis). Nerd ecology. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 1472567633

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