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Author:   Gerold Sedlmayr ,  Nicole Waller
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786495108

ISBN 10:   0786495103
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 October 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: The Politics of Fantasy • Gerold Sedlmayr and Nicole Waller I. Identity “It’s all a big show”: Constructing Identity in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy • Stefanie Fricke Gender and Racial Roles in Computer ­Role-Playing Games • Andreas Blüml II. The Politics of Fantasy Conservative and Countercultural Elements in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas • Beatrix Hesse Subversive or Conservative? Vampires and Ideology in the Twilight Series and True Blood • Christian Knirsch From ­Hyper-Male Aardvarks to the Female Void: Gender Politics in Cerebus • Sebastian Domsch Fantasy as Politics: George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire • Rainer Emig The Politics of ­Post-Apocalypse: Interactivity, Narrative Framing and Ethics in Fallout 3 • Matthias Kemmer The Atheist Believer: Harry Potter and the Politics of Religion • Bärbel Höttges Political Rhetoric as a Structural and Ideological Instrument in Star Wars and Harry Potter • Christina Flotmann Haven’t I Been Here Before? China Miéville’s Uncanny Cities • Dirk Vanderbeke III. The Fantasy of Politics Fantastic Body Politics in Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law Trilogy • Gerold Sedlmayr The Fantasy of Politics: The Past and the Future of ­Object-Related Fantasy • Sladja Blažan Tolkien’s Baits: Agonism, Essentialism and the Visible in The Lord of the Rings • Dirk Wiemann About the Contributors Index

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The 13 essays in this volume cover the whole range of present-day forms of fantasy...a valuable contribution to the discussion of contemporary fantasy by demonstrating in great detail that there is much more to this often reviled form of dealing with the complexities of our world than meets the eye --Inklings Jahrbuch.

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Gerold Sedlmayr is professor of British cultural studies at TU Dortmund University, Germany. He lives in Kamen. Nicole Waller is professor of American studies at Potsdam University, Germany. She lives in Berlin.

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