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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. 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. They focus on strong relationships between women and family, as well as among the anti-heroes, the 'cripples, bastards and broken things'. 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. 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. 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. 'All men must die': or 'Valar Morghulis', as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian. This volume invites new and ongoing conversations about the Bible’s complicity in rape-supportive cultures and practices, challenging readers to read these texts in light of the global crisis of gender violence. They also consider the complex connections between biblical gender violence and the perpetuation and validation of rape culture in contemporary popular culture. The authors within this volume attempt to name (and shame) the multiple forms of gender violence present within the biblical traditions, contesting the erasure of this violence within both the biblical texts themselves and their interpretive traditions. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power systems. This book explores the Bible’s ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. The key is whether the characters break out of their traditional roles and become multidimensional. Some nude scenes or moments of male violence are fetishized and filmed to tantalize, while others show the women’s trauma and attempt to identify with the scene’s female perspective.
How these characters are treated in the series and how they treat themselves becomes central, as many strip for the pleasure of men or are sacrificed as pawns.
Accompanying issues in television studies also appear, from the male gaze to depiction of race. This book analyzes the women and their portrayals one by one, along with their historical inspirations. However, the problem is that most of them play a single role without nuance-even the “strong women” have little to do besides strut about as one-note characters. Certainly the female characters, strong and weak, embody a variety of archetypes-widow queens, warrior women, damsels in distress, career women, priestesses, crones, mothers and maidens. Game of Thrones, one of the hottest series on television, leaves hundreds of critics divided on how “feminist” the show really is.
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