内容简介：
Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones
Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn
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 is really 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 the series
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.
作者简介：
Kavita Mudan Finn is the author of The Last
Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and
Historiography 1440–1627.