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Author Di Paolo, Marc, author.

Title Fire and snow climate fiction from the inklings to Game of thrones / Marc DiPaolo
Published Albany : SUNY Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Introduction. Reclaiming Enemy-Occupied Territory: Saving Middle-earth, Narnia, Westeros, Panem, Endor, and Gallifrey -- Star Wars, Hollywood Blockbusters, and the Cultural Appropriation of J.R.R. Tolkien -- Of Treebeard, C.S. Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism -- The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe -- Noah's Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy -- Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium -- Eden Revisited: Ursula K. Le Guin, St. Francis, and the Ecofeminist Storytelling Model -- MaddAddam and The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and Dystopian Science Fiction as Current Events -- Ur-Fascism and Populist Rebellions in Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road -- Tolkien's Kind of Catholic: Suzanne Collins, Empathy, and The Hunger Games -- The Cowboy and Indian Alliance: Collective Action Against Climate Change in A Song of Ice and Fire and Star Trek -- What Next? Robert Crumb's "A Short History of America" and Ending the Game of Thrones -- Epilogue. Who Owns the Legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
Climatic changes in literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Climatic changes in literature.
Environmentalism in literature.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction, English.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction, English.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438470474
1438470479