After 9/11, stories like Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings films provided essential tales of optimism in response to widespread narratives of war and anti-globalization.
It's pretty weird to include LOTR as a post 9/11 work, even if the first movie did come out in 2001, it was written and shot before then and also based on a 50 year old book.
The works Aja lists as hopepunk are so eclectic and weird.
(Nick Mamatas linked to the article on FB and at least one of the authors listed was basically "OH FUCK NO!)
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It's pretty weird to include LOTR as a post 9/11 work, even if the first movie did come out in 2001, it was written and shot before then and also based on a 50 year old book.
The works Aja lists as hopepunk are so eclectic and weird.
(Nick Mamatas linked to the article on FB and at least one of the authors listed was basically "OH FUCK NO!)