Women Of Ice And Fire

2016-04-07

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.

Author: Anne Gjelsvik

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781501302916

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 288

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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.

Queenship and the Women of Westeros

2019-11-07

This volume is a wide-ranging study of those intersections.

Author: Zita Eva Rohr

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030250416

Category: History

Page: 263

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Is the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones really medieval? How accurately does it reflect the real Middle Ages? Historians have been addressing these questions since the book and television series exploded into a cultural phenomenon. For scholars of medieval and early modern women, they offer a unique vantage point from which to study the intersections of elite women and popular understandings of the premodern world. This volume is a wide-ranging study of those intersections. Focusing on female agency and the role of advice, it finds a wealth of continuities and contrasts between the many powerful female characters of Martin’s fantasy world and the strategies that historical women used to exert influence. Reading characters such as Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, and Brienne of Tarth with a creative, deeply scholarly eye, Queenship and the Women of Westeros makes cutting-edge developments in queenship studies accessible to everyday readers and fans.

All Men Must Die

2021-01-14

Carroll, Shiloh, 'Daenerys the Unready: Advice and Ruling in Meereen', in Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, ed. Zita Rohr and Lisa Benz.

Author: Carolyne Larrington

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350141537

Category: Social Science

Page: 296

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'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian. And die they do – in prodigious numbers; in imaginatively varied and gruesome ways; and often in terror within the viciously unpredictable world that is HBO's sensational evocation of Game of Thrones. Epic in scope and in imaginative breadth, the stories that are brought to life tell of the dramatic rise and fall of nations, the brutal sweeping away of old orders and the advent of new autarchs in the eternal quest for dominion. Yet, as this book reveals, many potent and intimate narratives of love and passion can be found within these grand landscapes of heroism, honour and death. They focus on strong relationships between women and family, as well as among the anti-heroes, the 'cripples, bastards and broken things'. In this vital follow-up to Winter Is Coming (2015), acclaimed medievalist Carolyne Larrington explores themes of power, blood-kin, lust and sex in order to draw entirely fresh meanings out of the show of the century.

From Page to Screen Vom Buch zum Film

2020-10-05

Queenship and the Women of Westeros. Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire. Berlin: Springer Nature. Rose, J. (10. Oktober 2017). „Missandei aus Game of Thrones rappt für Frauenrechte.

Author: Manuel Almagro-Jiménez

Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

ISBN: 9783823302339

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 410

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For a long time now, women have struggled for the vindication of their rights and for their visibility. This struggle may seem a story of success, maybe not complete or equal for all women, but at least one which slowly but surely carries with it the promise of equality for all women. However, a closer look reveals that in various fields of culture the representation of women frequently undergoes a manipulation which makes the image of women lose the intention initially attempted. This is often the case with adaptations of literary texts to the screen, when the initial literary message is changed because of, for example, marketing demands or some ideological stance. Rarely do we find the opposite case where the indifferent or emasculated original female characters are turned into guardians and/or apologists of feminine power. The present volume focuses precisely on the way in which the image of women is modified in films and TV series, when compared with the original literary texts.

Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives

2022-02-11

Once she is in power, Cersei turns Westeros in to a mirror image of a powerless woman: a torn, war-ravaged ... The bitch is back: Wicked women in literature. ... Bad kids: Incestuous fantasy and phenomenon in A Song of Ice and Fire.

Author: Natalie Le Clue

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

ISBN: 9781801175661

Category: Social Science

Page: 304

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For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media.

Power and Subversion in Game of Thrones

2022-09-27

Authority in A Song of Ice and Power” in Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, edited by Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 53–76.

Author: A. Keith Kelly

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476682648

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 199

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This collection of essays examines the structures of power and the ways in which power is exercised and felt in the fantasy world of Game of Thrones. It considers how the expectations of viewers, particularly within the genre of epic fantasy, are subverted across the full 8 seasons of the series. The assembled team of international scholars, representing a variety of disciplines, addresses such topics as the power of speech and magic; the role of nationality and politics; disability, race and gender; and the ways in which each reinforces or subverts power in Westeros and Essos.

Memory and Medievalism in George RR Martin and Game of Thrones

2022-08-11

'Woman with Dragons: Daenerys, Pride, and Postfeminist Possibilities'. In Women of Ice and Fire, edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart, 105–29. Schubart, Rikke and Anne Gjelsvik. 'Introduction'. In Women of Ice and Fire, ...

Author: Carolyne Larrington

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350269606

Category: History

Page: 241

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This book explores the connections between history and fantasy in George RR Martin's immensely popular book series 'A Song of Ice and Fire' and the international TV sensation HBO TV's Game of Thrones. Acknowledging the final season's foregrounding of the cultural centrality of history, truth and memory in the confrontation between Bran and the Night King, the volume takes full account of the TV show's conclusion in its multiple readings across from medieval history, its institutions and practices, as depicted in the books to the show's own particular medievalism. The topics under discussion include the treatment of the historical phenomena of chivalry, tournaments, dreams, models of education, and the supernatural, and the different ways in which these are mediated in Martin's books and the TV show. The collection also includes a new study of one of Martin's key sources, Maurice Druon's Les Rois Maudits, in-depth explorations of major characters in their medieval contexts, and provocative reflections on the show's controversial handling of gender and power politics. Written by an international team of medieval scholars, historians, literary and cultural experts, bringing their own unique perspectives to the multiple societies, belief-systems and customs of the 'Game of Thrones' universe, Memory and Medievalism in George RR Martin and Game of Thrones offers original and sparky insights into the world-building of books and show.

Shakespeare and Game of Thrones

2020-11-29

On the Machiavellian lady, see Elizabeth Beaton, “Female Machiavellians in Westeros,” in Women of Ice and Fire, 193–218. 10 Karin Gresham, “Cursed Womb, Bulging Thighs and Bald Scalp: George R.R. Martin's Grotesque Queen,” in Mastering ...

Author: Jeffrey R. Wilson

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781000228571

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 128

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It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by Shakespeare, and how a knowledge of the Shakespearean context enriches our understanding of the literary elements of Game of Thrones. On the one hand, Shakespeare influenced Game of Thrones indirectly because his history plays significantly shaped the way the Wars of the Roses are now remembered, including the modern histories and historical fictions George R.R. Martin drew upon. On the other, Game of Thrones also responds to Shakespeare’s first tetralogy directly by adapting several of its literary strategies (such as shifting perspectives, mixed genres, and metatheater) and tropes (including the stigmatized protagonist and the prince who was promised). Presenting new interviews with the Game of Thrones cast, and comparing contextual circumstances of composition—such as collaborative authorship and political currents—this book also lodges a series of provocations about writing and acting for the stage in the Elizabethan age and for the screen in the twenty-first century. An essential read for fans of the franchise, as well as students and academics looking at Shakespeare and Renaissance literature in the context of modern media.

The New Female Antihero

2022-02-10

The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century US Television Sarah Hagelin, Gillian Silverman ... 1 (2019): 46–65; and Yvonne Tasker and Lindsay Steenberg, “Women Warriors from Chivalry to Vengeance,” in Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, ...

Author: Sarah Hagelin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226816401

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 280

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The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Hagelin and Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model in their rejection of social responsibility

The M in CITAMS 30

2018-12-14

In Gjelsvik & Schubart (Eds.), Women of ice and fire; gender, Game of Thrones, and multiple media engagement (p. 203). London: Bloomsbury. Bourdaa, M., & Delmar, J. L. (2015). Case study of French and Spanish fan reception of Game of ...

Author: Casey Brienza

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

ISBN: 9781787696693

Category: Social Science

Page: 232

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Volume 18 of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications celebrates the thirty year anniversary of the Communications, Information Technology, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

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