Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones (eBook)

Kavita Mudan Finn (Herausgeber)

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2017
204 Seiten
Intellect Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78320-785-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won't die a fiery death. The show, based on the Song of Ice and Fire series written by George R. R. Martin, is a truly global phenomenon. With the seventh season of the HBO series in production, Game of Thrones has been nominated for multiple awards, its cast has been catapulted to celebrity and references to it proliferate throughout popular culture. Often positioned as the grittier antithesis to J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Martin's narrative focuses on the darker side of chivalry and heroism, stripping away these higher ideals to reveal the greed, amorality and lust for power underpinning them. Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones is an exciting new addition to the Intellect series, bringing together academics and fans of Martin's universe to consider not just the content of the books and HBO series, but fan responses to both. From trivia nights dedicated to minutiae to forums speculating on plot twists to academics trying to make sense of the bizarre climate of Westeros, everyone is talking about Game of Thrones. Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn, the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers, critics, and even creators of fanworks in a wide variety of media, including fiction, art, fancasting and cosplay.

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Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won't die a fiery death. The show, based on the Song of Fire and Ice series written by George R. R. Martin, is a truly global phenomenon. With the seventh season of the HBO series in production, Game of Thrones has been nominated for multiple awards, its cast has been catapulted to celebrity and references to it proliferate throughout popular culture. Often positioned as the grittier antithesis to J. R. R. Tolkien s Lord of the Rings, Martin s narrative focuses on the darker side of chivalry and heroism, stripping away these higher ideals to reveal the greed, amorality and lust for power underpinning them. Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones is an exciting new addition to the Intellect series, bringing together academics and fans of Martin s universe to consider not just the content of the books and HBO series, but fan responses to both. From trivia nights dedicated to minutiae to forums speculating on plot twists to academics trying to make sense of the bizarre climate of Westeros, everyone is talking about Game of Thrones. Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn, the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers, critics and even creators of fanworks in a wide variety of media, including fiction, art, fancasting and cosplay.

Inhalt

Introduction

Kavita Mudan Finn

 

Cosplay of Thrones: Recreating the Costumes of Westeros

Caitlin Postal

 

A Song of Toys and T-Shirts: Game of Thrones and it's Cultural Artefacts

Andrew Howe

 

'Growing Strong': Expanding the Game of Thrones Universe through Fan-Made Merchendizing

Julie Escurignan

Kavita Mudan Finn

Alio Garcia and Linda Antonsson

Amanda GiGioia

Game of Thrones on Kinja

Tracey J. Pennington

Game of Thrones on Meta Tumblr

Kristie Betts Letter

Geeks Who Drink

Jeffrey Chown 

Scholars of the Throne

 

The Watchers on the Wall: Game of Thrones and Online Fan Speculation

Rose Butler

 

Restoring the Balance: Feminist Meta: Texts and the Productivity of Tumblr's Game of Thrones Fans

Briony Linder

 

A Stark by Any Other Name: A Comparative Analysis of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Folksonomies

Kristin Linder

 

A Fan's Got to Have a Code: Evolving Perspectives on the Hound's Violence and Sexuality

Beth Walker

 

Colouring Outside the Lines: Social Justice and Fandom

H. Kapp-Klote

 

Unbowed, Unbent, Unaccepted: Disputing Women's Roles in Game of Thrones

Janice Liedl

 

Learn to Fight with Your Other Hand: Game of Thrones as Complicated Champion of Disability

Courtney Stanton

 

Game of Thrones in India: Of Piracy, Queer Intimacies and Viral Memes

Rohit K. Dasgupta

 

By the Old Gods and the New: Daily Interactions with Game of Thrones

Jennifer Crumley and Amy Stavola

 

Geeks of Thrones: Scientists as Fan Scholars

Kristine Larsen

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Fan Phenomena
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Cosplay • fan culture • Fandom • Fanworks • Game of Thrones • George R. R. Martin • Song of Fire and Ice • Television • TV series • Westeros
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-785-X / 178320785X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-785-5 / 9781783207855