Fire and snow : climate fiction from the inklings to Game of Thrones /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Di Paolo, Marc (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
Subjects:	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.

Table of 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?