Power and subversion in Game of thrones : critical essays on the HBO series /
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 eight seasons of the series...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Breaking the wheel: Game of thrones and the American zeitgeist / Daniel Vollaro
- Dangerous nostalgia: fantasies of medievalism, race, and identity / Robert Allen Rouse
- Game of victims and monsters: representation of sexual female violence / Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
- Subversion or reinforcement? patriarchy and masculinity / Andrew Howe
- "I'll go with anger": female rage in and at Game of thrones / Lindsey Mantoan
- The developing verbal power of Daenerys: a pragmatics analysis / Graham P. Johnson
- "Who has a better story than Bran the Broken?" the power of disability narratives / Jan Doolittle Wilson
- Magic's failure to reanimate history / Jason M. Embry
- A brief conclusion on the conclusion.