Gender And Sexuality In Contemporary Popular Fantasy

Author : Jude Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317130545
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy written by Jude Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and multi-player online role-play games, novels and short stories, comics, manga and graphic novels, and board games. Engaging directly with an enormously successful popular genre which is often overlooked by literary and cultural criticism, contributors pay close attention to the ways in which the producers of fantasy texts, whether visual, game, cinematic, graphic or literary texts, are able to play with gender and sexuality, to challenge and disrupt received notions and to allow and encourage their audiences to imagine ways of being outside of the constitutive constraints of socialized gender and sexual identity. With rich case studies from the US, Australia, UK, Japan and Europe, all concentrating not on the critique of fantasy texts which duplicate or reinforce existing prejudices about gender and sexuality, but on examining the exploration of or attempt to make possible non-normative gendered and sexual identities, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, with interests in popular culture, fantasy, media studies and gender and sexualities.

Author : Jude Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315583938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy written by Jude Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and multi-player online role-play games, novels and short stories, comics, manga and graphic novels, and board games. Engaging directly with an enormously successful popular genre which is often overlooked by literary and cultural criticism, contributors pay close attention to the ways in which the producers of fantasy texts, whether visual, game, cinematic, graphic or literary texts, are able to play with gender and sexuality, to challenge and disrupt received notions and to allow and encourage their audiences to imagine ways of being outside of the constitutive constraints of socialized gender and sexual identity. With rich case studies from the US, Australia, UK, Japan and Europe, all concentrating not on the critique of fantasy texts which duplicate or reinforce existing prejudices about gender and sexuality, but on examining the exploration of or attempt to make possible non-normative gendered and sexual identities, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, with interests in popular culture, fantasy, media studies and gender and sexualities.

Author : Francesca T Barbini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911143246
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Francesca T Barbini and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction" is the Call for Papers 2016 of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing. The papers explore this theme asking the important question: do we have a problem?

Author : Kathryn James
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135891192
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature written by Kathryn James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the trope of woman/death, the eroticizing of death, and the ways in which the gendered subject is represented in dialogue with the processes of death, dying, and grief, James shows how representations of death in young adult literature are invariably associated with issues of sexuality, gender, and power.

Author : Bernice M. Murphy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474414869
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction written by Bernice M. Murphy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.

Author : Paul Venzo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000393445
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults written by Paul Venzo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding outward from previous scholarship on gender, queerness, and heteronormativity in children’s literature, this book offers fresh insights into representations of sex and sexuality in texts for young people. In this collection, new and established scholars examine how fiction and non-fiction writing, picture books, film and television and graphic novels position young people in relation to ideologies around sexuality, sexual identity, and embodiment. This book questions how such texts communicate a sense of what is possible, impossible, taboo, or encouraged in terms of being sexual and sexual being. Each chapter is motivated by a set of important questions: How are representations of sex and sexuality depicted in texts for young people? How do these representations affect and shape the kinds of sexualities offered as models to young readers? And to what extent is sexual diversity acknowledged and represented across different narrative and aesthetic modes? This work brings together a diverse range of conceptual and theoretical approaches that are framed by the idea of sexual becoming: the manner in which texts for young people invite their readers to assess and potentially adopt ways of thinking and being in terms of sex and sexuality.

Author : Gavin Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317337123
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music written by Gavin Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternative analytic of ambiguity has never been systematically examined. While difference from heterosexual norms is taken to be the multivalent sign of resistance, oppression, and self-invention, it can lead to inflated claims of the degree and power of difference. This book offers critically-oriented case studies that examine the theory and politics of ambiguity. Ambiguity means that there are both positive and negative implications in any gender and sexuality practices, both sameness and difference from heteronormativity, and unfixed possibility in the diverse nature of discourse and practice (rather than just "difference" among fixed multiplicities). Contributors present a diverse array of approaches through music, sound, psyche, body, dance, performance, race, ethnicity, power, discourse, and history. A wide variety of popular music genres are broached, including gay circuit remixes, punk rock, Goth music, cross-dress performance, billboard 100 songs, global pop, and nineteenth-century minstrelsy. The authors examine the ambiguities of performance and reception, and address the vexed question of whether it is possible for genuinely new forms of gender and sexuality to emerge musically. This book makes a distinctive contribution to studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, and will be of interest to fields including Popular Music Studies, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, and Media Studies.

Author : U. Melissa Anyiwo
Publisher : Teaching Gender
ISBN 13 : 9789004394094
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Warriors written by U. Melissa Anyiwo and published by Teaching Gender. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: what is urban fantasy? / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Creating the urban fantasy heroine: gender displacement in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series / Candace Benefiel -- Empowering or fetishizing: Wonder Woman takes the Bechdel test / Sarah A. Smith -- The vampiric nature of transmedia storytelling in the Buffyverse / Jenna Guitar -- Bewitching bodies: sex, violence, and magic in urban fantasy / Amanda Jo Hobson -- Fighting and feminist expression: the Argent family and the limits of female agency in Teen Wolf / Lauren Rocha -- Tough women, patriarchal violence, and the problem of non-intersectional feminism in Les Wiseman's Underworld series / Ana G. Gal -- The problematic fan-girl: Cassandra Clare's gendered revisions in the Mortal Instruments series / Cait Coker -- A monstrous narrative: unraveling gender and ethnic archetypes in Showtime's Penny Dreadful / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- The urban fantasy classroom / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson -- The urban fantasy universe: or what to read or watch next / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

Author : Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498594301
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy written by Ingrid E. Castro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children’s agency, wherein children’s beings and becomings, rooted in childhood’s freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on children’s agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.

Author : Taylor Driggers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350231746
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature written by Taylor Driggers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy literature inhabits the realms of the orthodox and heterodox, the divine and demonic simultaneously, making it uniquely positioned to imaginatively re-envision Christian theology from a position of difference. Having an affinity for the monstrous and the 'other', and a preoccupation with desires and forms of embodiment that subvert dominant understandings of reality, fantasy texts hold hitherto unexplored potential for articulating queer and feminist religious perspectives. Focusing primarily on fantastic literature of the mid- to late twentieth century, this book examines how Christian theology in the genre is dismantled, re-imagined and transformed from the margins of gender and sexuality. Aligning fantasy with Derrida's theories of deconstruction, Taylor Driggers explores how the genre can re-figure God as the 'other' excluded and erased from theology. Through careful readings of C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve, and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea novels, Driggers contends that fantasy can challenge cis-normative, heterosexual, and patriarchal theology. Also engaging with the theories of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Marcella Althaus-Reid, and Linn Marie Tonstad, this book demonstrates that whilst fantasy cannot save Christianity from itself, nor rehabilitate it for marginalised subjects, it confronts theology with its silenced others in a way that bypasses institutional debates on inclusion and leadership, asking how theology might be imagined otherwise.