Publication

2016 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • LCCGE195
  • LCCGF50 .L56 2016

Description

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular CultureBloomsbury Publishing Plc2016-01-01

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