Nerd ecology : defending the earth with unpopular culture /
"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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Series: | Environmental cultures series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| Item Description: | WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED TEMPORARY ACCESS TO THIS TITLE. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474219730 147421973X 1472567633 9781472567635 1472567641 9781472567642 147256765X 9781472567659 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781474219730 |
| Finding Aid: | Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue. |