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Mar. 2018 WOMEN OF ICE AND FIRE WOMEN OF ICE AND FIRE Gender, Game of Thrones, and Multiple Media Engagements Edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway 50 Bedford Square New York London NY 10018 WC1B 3DP USA UK www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 © Anne Gjelsvik, Rikke Schubart and Contributors, 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Gjelsvik, Anne, editor. | Schubart, Rikke, editor. Title: Women of ice and fire : gender, Game of thrones and multiple media engagements / edited by Anne Gjelsvik, Rikke Schubart. Description: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015037181| ISBN 9781501302893 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501302909 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Game of thrones (Television program) | Women heroes in mass media. | Women in mass media. | BISAC: PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. Classification: LCC PN1992.77.G35 W86 2016 | DDC 791.45/72--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037181 ISBN: HB: 9781501302893 PB: 9781501302909 ePub: 9781501302923 ePDF: 9781501302916 Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Rikke Schubart and Anne Gjelsvik 1 Chapter 1 ADAPTING SEX: CULTURAL CONCEPTIONS OF SEXUALITY IN WORDS AND IMAGES Mariah Larsson 17 Chapter 2 ADAPTING DESIRE: WIVES, PROSTITUTES, AND SMALLFOLK Shannon Wells-Lassagne 39 Chapter 3 UNSPEAKABLE ACTS OF (SEXUAL) TERROR AS/IN QUALITY TELEVISION Anne Gjelsvik 57 Chapter 4 SWORN SWORDS AND NOBLE LADIES: FEMALE CHARACTERS IN GAME OF THRONES VIDEO GAMES Felix Schröter 79 Chapter 5 WOMAN WITH DRAGONS: DAENERYS, PRIDE, AND POSTFEMINIST POSSIBILITIES Rikke Schubart 105 Chapter 6 POWER PLAY AND FAMILY TIES: HYBRID FANTASY, NETWORK NARRATIVE, AND FEMALE CHARACTERS Helle Kannik Haastrup 131 Chapter 7 “MAIDEN, MOTHER, AND CRONE”: MOTHERHOOD IN THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE Marta Eidsvåg 151 vi Contents Chapter 8 WOMEN WARRIORS FROM CHIVALRY TO VENGEANCE Yvonne Tasker and Lindsay Steenberg 171 Chapter 9 FEMALE MACHIAVELLIANS IN WESTEROS Elizabeth Beaton 193 Chapter 10 THE EXPERT FEMALE FAN RECAP ON YOUTUBE Susana Tosca and Lisbeth Klastrup 219 Chapter 11 “I’M NOT GOING TO FIGHT THEM, I’M GOING TO FUCK THEM”: SEXIST LIBERALISM AND GENDER (A)POLITICS IN GAME OF THRONES Stéphanie Genz 243 About the Contributors 267 Index 271 INTRODUCTION Rikke Schubart and Anne Gjelsvik George Stroumboulopoulos: “There’s one thing that’s interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?” George R. R. Martin: “You know, I’ve always considered women to be people.”1 Key Questions With his bestselling book series, A Song of Ice and Fire (1996–), George R. R. Martin has been credited with changing the status of fantasy from geek culture to mainstream box office, from a light and utopian genre to a grim, dark, and dystopian place, and from attracting not only men, but also women. His book series grew into a transglobal media, what we, here, refer to as the “transmedia GoT universe”. This includes the books and their adaptation into the HBO TV series Game of Thrones (2011–), wikis, various online fan activities, and computer games.2 While there are, surely, many explanations for this success, in Women of Ice and Fire we focus on Martin’s female characters who have generated praise, intense attention and fascination, heated debate, controversy, and have been read as both feminist and antifeminist, as subversive and repressive, and, coined in the discussion of the TV series, as tools for “sexploitation”. Female characters are, we think, key to the originality and, thus, to the appeal and popularity of the GoT universe. Our anthology lays out two tracks that are intertwined: We examine the female characters in GoT, and we focus on how women operate in the transmedial GoT universe. Thus, our anthology explores the female characters of GoT, and how a transmedial GoT is inhabited and used by women, both fictional characters and real women. As mentioned, there are many ways in which Martin’s book series is unique, one being that it offers more than thirty first-person narrators, of which half are women, and several of those are central protagonists and potential candidates for the fought-over Iron Throne. Women are everywhere—as 2 Women of Ice and Fire protagonists, side characters, and smallfolk (Martin’s term for peasantry and common folk)—and we find all kinds of stereotypes. Here are the fair Princess Daenerys, who can survive fire and has three dragons, the scheming and evil Queen Cersei, a passionate Lady Catelyn, the ambitious Red Witch Melisandre, vengeful tomboy Arya, romantic teen Sansa, chivalric knight Brienne, clever prostitute Ros, and many others who are not run-of-the-mill fantasy women, but rather complex, multi-faceted, intriguing, and highly engaging characters. The overall plot in GoT is a battle for the Iron Throne. Here, female characters are as ambitious, active, and able as men. However, how they navigate their world is a matter of narrative, of author decisions, of television producers’ calculation in audiences and commercial strategies, of game producers’ choice of design, and of users and fans’ interactions with the various media forms. In the transmedial GoT especially, representations of sex and violence and sexualized violence have proven both provocative and problematic. In Season 1, one scene which raised a cacophony of protests was when Drogo had sex with his teenage bride, Daenerys, on their wedding night. It led a feminist blogger to comment: “The beautiful setting and soft music is a subliminal cue … you give when the romantic leads are about to kiss and fully recognize their passion for one another. In this scene, those cues are perverted with a message that rape is romantic, rape is love.”3 On the other hand, author and editor Caroline Spector, writing about the same events in the TV series and books, states, “the canard of the woman who falls in love with her rapist is extremely difficult to overcome … [yet] by creating such diverse and fully rendered female characters and thrusting them into this grim and bitter world, Martin has created a subversively feminist tale”.4 The contributors to the present volume disagree, as do audiences, about how to see women in GoT. Are they feminist characters, or a perversion of feminism? Is this postfeminist entertainment for a neoliberal age? Is it a backlash dressed up in prefeminist medieval clothes (which often hasnaked women in the background of exposition or dramatic action)? Or is Martin a feminist, as he claims,5 and these women, then, the role models in a complex and conflicted contemporary world that has abandoned utopian illusions and in which fantasy is transformed from light to dark and from the ethically simple to conflicted? Whether you find the women in GoT subversive, repressive, or ambiguously mixed, they are more than mere spectacle. In the episode “You Win or You Die” (1.07), Queen Cersei (Lena Headey) warns Lord Ned Stark (Sean Bean) that, “when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die”. And Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) warns an abusive brother that, “the next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands” (1.04). These are not empty threats. Cersei and Daenerys’s passionate approach to men and politics is shared by other female characters and by audiences (and here we include fans, critics, and academics). Women of Ice and Fire explores this passionate engagement in the hope of both carving out new roads in the gendered terrain of GoT, and also mapping new territory in women’s engagement with transmedial fantasy. Introduction 3 Figure 1: “Mother of Dragons.” Original artwork of Daenerys and her three dragons in A Song of Ice and Fire by Uruguayan artist Yama Orce.
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