George R.R. Martin's acclaimed seven-book fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is unique for its strong and multi-faceted female protagonists, from teen queen Daenerys, scheming Queen Cersei, child avenger Arya, knight Brienne, Red Witch Melisandre, and many more. The Game of Thrones universe challenges, exploits, yet also changes how we think of women and gender, not only in fantasy, but in Western culture in general.
Divided into three sections addressing questions of adaptation from novel to television, female characters, and politics and female audience engagement within the GoT universe, the interdisciplinary and international lineup of contributors analyze gender in relation to female characters and topics such as genre, sex, violence, adaptation, as well as fan reviews. The genre of fantasy was once considered a primarily male territory with male heroes. Women of Ice and Fire shows how the GoT universe challenges, exploits, and reimagines gender and why it holds strong appeal to female readers, audiences, and online participants.
Автор: Frankel Valerie Estelle Название: Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity and Resistance ISBN: 0786494166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786494163 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Game of Thrones is one of the hottest series on television. However, hundreds of critics are divided on how "feminist" the show really is. Certainly, the female characters, strong and weak, embody a spectrum of archetypes - widow queens, warrior women, damsels in distress, career women, priestesses, crones, mothers, and maidens. However, the problematic area is that most play a single role without nuance - even the "strong women" have little to do besides strut about as one-note characters. This book analyses the women and their portrayals one by one, along with their historical inspirations.Accompanying issues in television studies also appear, from the male gaze to depiction of race. How these characters are treated in the series and how they treat themselves becomes central, as many strip for the pleasure of men or are sacrificed as pawns. Some nude scenes or moments of male violence are fetishised and filmed to tantalise, while others show the women's trauma and attempt to identify with the scene's female perspective. The key is whether the characters break out of their traditional roles and become multifaceted.
George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is a worldwide phenomenon, and the world of Westeros has seen multiple adaptations, from HBO's acclaimed television series to graphic novels, console games and orchestral soundtracks. This collection of new essays investigates what makes this world so popular, and why the novels and television series are being taught in university classrooms as genre-defining works within the American fantasy tradition. This volume represents the first sustained scholarly treatment of George R.R. Martin's groundbreaking work, and includes writing by experts involved in the production of the HBO show. The contributors investigate a number of compelling areas, including the mystery of the shape-shifting wargs, the conflict between religions, the origins of the Dothraki language and the sex lives of knights. The significance of fan cultures and their adaptations is also discussed.
Автор: Jones Matthew, Ormrod Joan Название: Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film ISBN: 0786478071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786478071 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Something has happened to time. In recent years the media have produced numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and videogames that bend, shatter and rebuild the clock. What caused this fascination with time travel? This book explores time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts.
Автор: Ames Melissa Название: Time in Television Narrative ISBN: 162846173X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628461732 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 4712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the present and the past narrative threads. Although temporal play has existed on the small screen prior to the new millennium, never before has narrative time been so freely adapted in mainstream television. The essayists offer explanations for not only the frequency of time-play in contemporary programming, but also the implications of its sometimes disorienting presence. Drawing upon the fields of cultural studies, television scholarship, and literary studies, as well as overarching theories concerning postmodernity and narratology, Time in Television Narrative offers some critical suggestions. The increasing number of television programs concerned with time may stem from any and all of the following: recent scientific approaches to quantum physics and temporality; new conceptions of history and post history; or trends in late-capitalistic production and consumption, in the new culture of instantaneity, or in the recent trauma culture amplified after the September 11 attacks. In short, these televisual time experiments may very well be an aesthetic response to the climate from which they derive. These essays analyze both ends of this continuum and also attend to another crucial variable: the television viewer watching this new temporal play.
Описание: George R.R. Martin’s acclaimed seven-book fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is unique for its strong and multi-faceted female protagonists, from teen queen Daenerys, scheming Queen Cersei, child avenger Arya, knight Brienne, Red Witch Melisandre, and many more. The Game of Thrones universe challenges, exploits, yet also changes how we think of women and gender, not only in fantasy, but in Western culture in general. Divided into three sections addressing questions of adaptation from novel to television, female characters, and politics and female audience engagement within the GoT universe, the interdisciplinary and international lineup of contributors analyze gender in relation to female characters and topics such as genre, sex, violence, adaptation, as well as fan reviews. The genre of fantasy was once considered a primarily male territory with male heroes. Women of Ice and Fire shows how the GoT universe challenges, exploits, and reimagines gender and why it holds strong appeal to female readers, audiences, and online participants.
Автор: Nathanson Elizabeth Название: Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping: No Time for Mother ISBN: 1138645575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138645578 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women's everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot keep house and narratives about women who only keep house. Nathanson looks specifically at the issue of time in this context and argues that the media constructs panics about domestic time scarcity while at the same time offering solutions for those very panics. Analyzing TV programs such as How Clean is Your House, Up All Night, and Supernanny, she finds that media's portrayals of women's time is crucial to understanding definitions of femininity, women's labor, and leisure in the postfeminist context.
Описание: Mom, apple pie, and The $64,000 Question. Nothing was more American in the 1950s than the TV quiz show, which both illuminated and mirrored all the hopes, dreams, fads and faults of a nation-come-of-age. Using the quiz show as unique video roadmap into the soul and zeitgeist of a proud republic, Mark Dunn playfully captures in [1950s Game Shows and American Culture] aspects of the iconography of a mid-century United States within the context of TV game playing, prize-winning, and collective self-examination.Dunn devotes the book’s chapters to the various ways in which the country viewed women, minorities, gays, and teens, the eccentricities of the American worker, New York City, the onslaught of Communism and the country’s over-reactive response to it, the news-making events of the day, shadowed by events of the past, all within the parameters of the 1950s television game show—a phenomenon that had become cultural touchstone for the decade. [1950s Game Shows and American Culture] also visits the scandals that marred the genre’s reputation, and drew back the curtain on the propensity for both gullibility and winking cynicism among Americans—a cynicism that would color (but not too harshly), the way the country viewed its magic, rabbit-eared box, and the wonderful, whimsical games people played inside it.
Автор: Nadine Farghaly Название: Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes ISBN: 078649459X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786494590 Издательство: Turpin Цена: 6745.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle's stories proves as interesting as the astute detective's constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow seems both superfluous and essential. While Conan Doyle does not depict Holmes and Watson as equals, he avoids presenting Watson as incompetent, as he was made to appear on screen for decades. A variety of reimagined Holmeses and Watsons in recent years have depicted their relationship as more nuanced and complementary. Focusing on the Guy Ritchie films, the BBC's Sherlock and CBS's Elementary, this collection of new essays explores the ideas and implications behind these adaptations.
Описание: This book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction of new viewing technologies including DVDs, DVRs and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.
Автор: Jowett, Lorna Robinson, Kevin Simmons, David Название: Time on tv ISBN: 1784530131 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784530136 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covers popular TV genres of sci fi and horror, and their cult series.
Автор: Mondschein Ken Название: Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War ISBN: 0786499702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786499700 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The success of George R.R. Martin`s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and HBO`s Game of Thrones series underscores the perennial popularity of medieval history - or rather "medievalism", the idea of the Middle Ages. This book, written by an historian and medieval martial arts expert, explains how Martin`s fantasy world reflects real history.
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