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Vying for the iron throne : essays on power, gender, death and performance in HBO's Game of thrones
- Title
- Vying for the iron throne : essays on power, gender, death and performance in HBO's Game of thrones / edited by Lindsey Mantoan and Sara Brady.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 222 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This collection of new essays explores how power, death, gender, and performance intertwine in the series"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Raven : on drinking wine and knowing things / Lindsey Mantoan and Sara Brady -- Power. The realm is dark and full of deities : religion, class and power / Andrew Howe -- The crack of dorne / Mat Hardy -- Pornography, postwoman and female nudity / Aaron K.H. Ho -- Winning the Game of thrones : conquering Westeros with Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli and John Nash / Matteo Barbagello -- Raven : dragons / Lindsey Manotan -- Gender. Raven : Sansa / Lindsey Manotan -- Brienne and Jaime's queer intimacy / Audrey Moyce -- A few broken men : the eunuchs and their names / Benjamin Bartu -- Harder and stronger : Yara Greyjoy and the ironborn / Catherine Pugh -- Raven : Cersei Lannister, first of her name / Lindsey Mantoan -- Death. The "most shocking" death : adaptation, femininity and victimhood in the human sacrifice of Shireen Baratheon / Rachel M.E. Wolfe -- "Kill the boy and let the man be born" : youth, death and manhood / Dan Ward -- A world without us : the end of humanity / Michail Zontos -- Raven : end of days / Lindsey Mantoan -- Performance. "I should wear the armor and you the gown" : costuming queens / Rose Butler -- Game of thrones as gesamtkunstwerk : adapting Shakespeare and Wagner / Dan Venning -- A girl is Arya : acting and the power of performance / Carol Parrish Jamison -- Avatars and identity performance : disembodied self in virtual spaces / Ian Ross -- "Let there be no more woe for Jon Snow" : the dramaturgy of spoilers / Sarah Beck -- Raven : social media / Lindsey Mantoan -- Epilogue -- A storm of shows : how Game of thrones changed television / Adam Whitehead.
- Call Number
- MWGT 19-337
- ISBN
- 9781476674261
- 1476674264
- LCCN
- 2018039530
- OCLC
- 1040191238
- Title
- Vying for the iron throne : essays on power, gender, death and performance in HBO's Game of thrones / edited by Lindsey Mantoan and Sara Brady.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Mantoan, Lindsey, editor.Brady, Sara, editor.
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 19-337