Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won't die a fiery death. The show, based on the Song of Fire and Ice series written by George R. R. Martin, is a truly global phenomenon.
With the seventh season of the HBO series in production, Game of Thrones has been nominated for multiple awards, its cast has been catapulted to celebrity and references to it proliferate throughout popular culture. Often positioned as the grittier antithesis to J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Martin's narrative focuses on the darker side of chivalry and heroism, stripping away these higher ideals to reveal the greed, amorality and lust for power underpinning them.
Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones is an exciting new addition to the Intellect series, bringing together academics and fans of Martin's universe to consider not just the content of the books and HBO series, but fan responses to both. From trivia nights dedicated to minutiae to forums speculating on plot twists to academics trying to make sense of the bizarre climate of Westeros, everyone is talking about Game of Thrones. Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn, the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers, critics and even creators of fanworks in a wide variety of media, including fiction, art, fancasting and cosplay.
Winter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won't die a fiery death. The show, based on the Song of Fire and Ice series written by George R. R. Martin, is a truly global phenomenon.
With the seventh season of the HBO series in production, Game of Thrones has been nominated for multiple awards, its cast has been catapulted to celebrity and references to it proliferate throughout popular culture. Often positioned as the grittier antithesis to J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Martin's narrative focuses on the darker side of chivalry and heroism, stripping away these higher ideals to reveal the greed, amorality and lust for power underpinning them.
Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones is an exciting new addition to the Intellect series, bringing together academics and fans of Martin's universe to consider not just the content of the books and HBO series, but fan responses to both. From trivia nights dedicated to minutiae to forums speculating on plot twists to academics trying to make sense of the bizarre climate of Westeros, everyone is talking about Game of Thrones. Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn, the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers, critics and even creators of fanworks in a wide variety of media, including fiction, art, fancasting and cosplay.
Introduction
Kavita Mudan Finn Cosplay of Thrones: Recreating the
Costumes of Westeros
Caitlin Postal A Song of Toys and T-Shirts: Game of Thrones
and it's Cultural Artefacts
Andrew Howe 'Growing Strong': Expanding the Game of Thrones
Universe through Fan-Made Merchendizing
Julie Escurignan Kavita Mudan Finn
Alio Garcia and Linda Antonsson Amanda GiGioia
Game of Thrones on Kinja Tracey J. Pennington
Game of Thrones on Meta Tumblr Kristie Betts Letter
Geeks Who Drink Jeffrey Chown
Scholars of the Throne The Watchers on the Wall: Game of
Thrones and Online Fan Speculation
Rose Butler Restoring the Balance: Feminist Meta: Texts and
the Productivity of Tumblr's Game of Thrones Fans
Briony Linder A Stark by Any Other Name: A Comparative
Analysis of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones
Folksonomies
Kristin Linder A Fan's Got to Have a Code: Evolving
Perspectives on the Hound's Violence and Sexuality
Beth Walker Colouring Outside the Lines: Social Justice and
Fandom
H. Kapp-Klote Unbowed, Unbent, Unaccepted: Disputing Women's
Roles in Game of Thrones
Janice Liedl Learn to Fight with Your Other Hand: Game of
Thrones as Complicated Champion of Disability
Courtney Stanton Game of Thrones in India: Of Piracy, Queer
Intimacies and Viral Memes
Rohit K. Dasgupta By the Old Gods and the New: Daily
Interactions with Game of Thrones
Jennifer Crumley and Amy Stavola Geeks of Thrones:
Scientists as Fan Scholars
Kristine Larsen
Kavita Mudan Finn is an independent scholar who previously taught medieval and early modern literature at Georgetown University, George Washington University, Simmons College, Southern New Hampshire University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2010 and published her first book, The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography 1440-1627, in 2012. Her work has also appeared in Shakespeare, Viator, Critical Survey, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and she has edited several collections, most recently Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones (2017, Intellect). She is currently working on her second book, which looks at representations of and fan responses to premodern women in television drama.
'Through its focus on the cultural phenomenon that is Game of
Thrones, Finn’s collection is a timely exploration of the ways in
which audiences not just consume but interact with cultural texts
in the social media age.'
*Aimee Burns, Media Education Journal*
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