Politics in fantasy media : essays on ideology and gender in fiction, film, television and games / edited by Gerold Sedlmayr and Nicole Waller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sedlmayr, Gerold, editor.

Waller, Nicole, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy in mass media.

Politics in literature.

Politics in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

vi, 215 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : cMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

"In spite or rather because of their depiction of other worlds allegedly disconnected from our own, these texts are able to actualize political attitudes. Instead of categorizing fantasy either as conservative or progressive, the essays suggest that its generic peculiarity allows the emergence of productive forms of oscillation between these extremes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I Identity

"It's all a big show": Constructing Identity in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy / Stefanie Fricke Fricke, Stefanie 17

Gender and Racial Roles in Computer Role-Playing Games / Andreas Büjml Büjml, Andreas 31

II The Politics of Fantasy

Conservative and Countercultutal Elements in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas / Beatrix Hesse Hesse, Beatrix 43

Subversive or Conservative? Vampires and Ideology in the Twilight Series and True Blood / Christian Knirsch Knirsch, Christian 57

From Hyper-Male Aardvarks to the Female Void: Gender Politics in Cerebus / Sebastian Domsch Domsch, Sebastian 72

Fantasy as Politics: George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire / Rainer Emig Emig, Rainer 85

The Politics of Post-Apocalypse: Interactivity, Narrative Framing and Ethics in Fallout 3 / Matthias Kemmer Kemmer, Matthias 97

The Atheist Believer: Harry Potter and the Politics of Religion / Bärbel Höttges Höttges, Bärbel 118

Political Rhetoric as a Structural and Ideological Instrument in Star Wars and Harry Potter / Christina Flotmann Flotmann, Christina 137

Haven't I Been Here Before? China Miéville s Uncanny Cities / Dirk Vanderbeke Vanderbeke, Dirk 150

III The Fantasy of Politics

Fantastic Body Politics in Joe Abercrombie's The First Law Trilogy / Gerold Sedlmayr Sedlmayr, Gerold 165

The Fantasy of Politics: The Past and the Future of Object- Related Fantasy / Sladja Blazan Blazan, Sladja 179

Tolkien's Baits: Agonism, Essentialism and the Visible in The Lord of the Rings / Dirk Wiemann Wiemann, Dirk 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786495108

0786495103

OCLC:

891324481