Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones /
Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century's triple threats of fascism, utilitarianism, and industrial capitalism. In Fire and Snow,...
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2018.
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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?