"A Lady Shouldn't Play with Swords" En Studie Om Genus Och Makt I TV-Serien Game of Thrones

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"A Lady shouldn't play with swords" En studie om genus och makt i TV-serien Game of Thrones Stockholms Universitet Institutionen för mediestudier, JMK Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap H16MKAND Handledare: Stenström, Kristina Av: Björkman, Sophie & Johansson, Emma Abstrakt Game of Thrones är en serie som började sändas 2011 på HBO. Efter att säsong sex hade släppt sista avsnittet var tittarsiffran uppe i 23 miljoner tittare världen över. Denna studie har som avsikt att studera utvalda karaktärer ur serien Game of Thrones ur ett makt- och genusperspektiv. En semiotisk metod utfördes samt en kvalitativ intervju i form av en fokusgrupp med fem respondenter. De som intervjuades valdes ut via ett strategiskt urval där vi utgick från personer som vi visste hade kunskap om serien. I den semiotiska delen valde vi att undersöka utvalda scener som var representativa för hela serien eller som påvisade generella beteenden hos våra karaktärer. Som material användes en del tidigare uppsatser som hade gjort liknande studier, där fokus på de flesta verken låg på karaktären Daenerys Targaryen. Även böcker som berör ämnet användes, Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity and Resistance (2014) som är skriven av Valarie Estelle Frankel tar bland annat upp hur de kvinnliga karaktärerna porträtteras, allt ifrån mödrar till prostituerade. Women of Ice and Fire (2016) som är redigerat av Anne Gjelvvik och Rikke Schubart är ett samlingsverk av artiklar som behandlar ämnen som sexualitet, prostitution och makt. Det vi kommit fram till under studiens gång är att det finns en tydlig uppdelning mellan män och kvinnor, där mannen ofta är kopplad till våld och kvinnan till manipulation för att kunna uppnå makt. Innehållsförteckning 1. Inledning .............................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Bakgrund ....................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Syfte ............................................................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Frågeställningar ............................................................................................................................. 2 1.4 Avgränsning ................................................................................................................................... 2 1.5 Disposition ..................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Tidigare forskning ................................................................................................................................ 3 2.1 Women in Game of Thrones: Power, Conformity and Resistance ................................................ 3 2.2 Women of fire and Ice: Gender, Game of Thrones, and Multiple Media Engagements ............... 4 2.3 Genusanalyser om Game of Thrones ............................................................................................ 4 3. Teoretisk ram....................................................................................................................................... 6 3.1 Genus ............................................................................................................................................. 6 3.2 Makt .............................................................................................................................................. 7 3.3 Stereotyper .................................................................................................................................... 8 4. Metod .................................................................................................................................................. 8 4.1 Semiotisk analys ............................................................................................................................ 8 4.1.1 Beskrivning ............................................................................................................................. 8 4.1.2 Denotation och konnotation .................................................................................................. 9 4.1.3 Fördelar och nackdelar ........................................................................................................... 9 4.1.4 Scenurval och genomförande............................................................................................... 10 4.2 Kvalitativ intervju ......................................................................................................................... 10 4.2.1 Beskrivning ........................................................................................................................... 10 4.2.2 Fokusgrupp och urval ........................................................................................................... 11 4.2.3 Fördelar och nackdelar ......................................................................................................... 12 4.2.4 Intervjuns upplägg ................................................................................................................ 12 5. Resultat och analys ............................................................................................................................ 13 5.1 Semiotisk analys .......................................................................................................................... 13 5.1.1 Winter is coming ................................................................................................................... 13 5.1.2 Book of the Stranger............................................................................................................. 15 5.1.3 Blackwater ............................................................................................................................ 18 5.1.4 Mother's Mercy .................................................................................................................... 19 5.1.5 Garden of Bones ................................................................................................................... 22 5.1.6 The Gift ................................................................................................................................. 23 5.1. 7 The Lion and the Rose ......................................................................................................... 25 5.1.8 Sammanfattning av semiotisk analys ................................................................................... 26 5.2 Kvalitativ intervju ......................................................................................................................... 26 5.2.1 Karaktärerna ......................................................................................................................... 26 5.2.2 Makt ..................................................................................................................................... 29 5.2.3 Sexualisering ......................................................................................................................... 29 5.2.4 Stereotyper ........................................................................................................................... 30 6. Slutdiskussion .................................................................................................................................... 31 7. Litteratur- och källförteckning ........................................................................................................... 33 7.1 Tryckta källor ............................................................................................................................... 33 7.2 Otryckta källor ............................................................................................................................. 34 7.3 Elektroniska källor ....................................................................................................................... 34 8. Bilagor ................................................................................................................................................ 35 8.1 Bilaga 1. Fokusgrupps intervju .................................................................................................... 35 1. Inledning I detta avsnitt redovisar vi studiens syfte, frågeställningar samt disposition. Vi har också ett avsnitt där vi ger en beskrivning av serien, dess karaktärer och dess viktigaste teman. Eftersom serien är såpass omfattande med många karaktärer och flera säsonger var en avgränsning nödvändig. Under ett specifikt avsnitt i denna uppsats beskriver vi hur vi kom fram till vår avgränsning. Då det funnits ett tidigare intresse för just genus och makt hos oss båda ansåg vi att det skulle vara fascinerande att applicera detta på en tv-serie. Serier i allmänhet är något vi båda ägnar mycket tid åt. Efter en urvalsprocess kom vi fram till att serien Game of Thrones (2011) var mest passande för vår studie då makt och genus är två framträdande teman i serien. Makt utspelar sig inte bara genom att karaktärerna kämpar om en plats på tronen utan utspelar sig också mellan könen där männen har ett övertag över kvinnorna. Game of Thrones är en serie vi båda har mycket kunskap om och som dessutom berör ämnena genus och makt på ett påtagligt sätt, vilket vi anser gör
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