Marc DiPaolo is Assistant Professor of English at Southwestern Oklahoma State University and the author of War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film.
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Reclaiming Enemy-Occupied Territory: Saving Middle-earth, Narnia, Westeros, Panem, Endor, and Gallifrey
1. Star Wars, Hollywood Blockbusters, and the Cultural Appropriation of J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Of Treebeard, C. S. Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism
3. The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe
4. Noah's Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy
5. Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium
6. Eden Revisited: Ursula K. Le Guin, St. Francis, and the Ecofeminist Storytelling Model
7. MaddAddam and The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and Dystopian Science Fiction as Current Events
8. Ur-Fascism and Populist Rebellions in Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Tolkien's Kind of Catholic: Suzanne Collins, Empathy, and The Hunger Games
10. The Cowboy and Indian Alliance: Collective Action against Climate Change in A Song of Ice and Fire and Star Trek
11. 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?
Notes
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