Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture

Zusatztext Focusing on the rich ecological content of nerd culture! this enlightening and compelling landmark study makes the absolutely central point of considering nerd culture as a resource for ecological politics. Nerd Ecology sustains a rigorous! persuasive and much needed conversation between environmental humanities and American Studies! showing how! from now on! transnational considerations of thinking beyond the nation should include the cultures of the nerds! with their transformative power of addressing planetary emergency. Informationen zum Autor Anthony Lioi is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts and English and Director of the Writing and Communication Center at the Juilliard School, New York, USA.Explores nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues, from Star Trek and Lord of the Rings , to Marvel's X-Men and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Zusammenfassung This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Nerd Ecology 2. Stellar Cosmopolitans: Star Trek and a Federation of Species 3. The Destruction of the Sky: Virtual Worlds as Refuge 4. The Great Music: Restoration as Counter-Apocalypse in the Tolkien Legendarium 5. Slayer and Signal: Joss Whedon Versus the Big Bads 6. Icons of Survival: Metahumanism as Planetary Defense Conclusion...

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• Authors: Anthony Lioi, Anthony (Juilliard School Lioi, Dr Anthony (Juilliard School Lioi, Lioi Anthony
• Assisted by: Greg Garrard (Editor), Richard Kerridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2016
• EAN: 9781472567635
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-6763-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Environmental Cultures; Criminal Practice Series; Environmental Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Films, cinema, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Film, TV & radio, Literary theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Environmentalist thought and ideology