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Nerd EcologyAnthony Lioi, Greg Garrard et al.

Nerd Ecology

Anthony Lioi, Greg Garrard, Richard Kerridge
2016240 pages
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"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…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2018
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 240 pages · 9781350066892
  • Other · English · 2016
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 240 pages · 9781472567635
  • Other · English · 2016
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781472567659
  • Other · English · 2016
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781472567642
Environmental protectionSocial ecologyHuman ecologyPopular cultureSubcultureEnvironmental sociologyEcology in literatureEnvironmentalism in mass media