Women of Ice and Fire

Anne Gjelsvik is Professor in Film Studies in the Department of Art and Media Studies at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Her research includes popular cinema, film violence, representation of gender in the media, and adaptation studies. Among her recent publications are Eastwood’s Iwo Jima: A Critical Engagement with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (2013, co-edited with Rikke Schubart) and Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions (2013).Rikke Schubart is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Her research focuses on gender, genre, and emotions in cinema and media. Schubart's publications include Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror (forthcoming), Eastwood’s Iwo Jima: A Critical Engagement with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (2013, co-edited with Anne Gjelsvik), and Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006 (2007).

• Introduction Rikke Schubart, University of Southern Denmark, & Anne Gjelsvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayAdapting Sex: Cultural Conceptions of Sexuality in Words and ImagesMariah Larsson, Stockholm University, Sweden Adapting Desire: Wives, Prostitutes, and Smallfolk Shannon Wells-Lassagne, Université de Bretagne Sud, France Unspeakable Acts of (Sexual) Terror as/in Quality TelevisionAnne Gjelsvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwaySworn Swords and Noble Ladies: Female Characters in Game of Thrones Video GamesFelix Schröter, Universität Hamburg, Germany Woman With Dragons: Daenerys, Pride, and Postfeminist Possibilities Rikke Schubart, University of Southern DenmarkPower Play and Family Ties: Hybrid Fantasy, Network Narrative, and Female CharactersHelle Kannik Haastrup, Roskilde University, Denmark Mother, Maiden, Crone: Motherhood in WesterosMarta Eidsvåg, freelance writer, UKWomen Warriors From Chivalry to VengeanceYvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia, UK, & Lindsay Steenberg, Oxford Brookes University, UK Female Machiavellians in WesterosElizabeth Beaton, Australian National University, AustraliaThe Expert Female Fan Recap on YouTubeSusana Tosca, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, & Lisbeth Klastrup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark“I’m Not Going to Fight Them, I’m Going to Fuck Them”: Sexist Liberalism and Gender (A)Politics in Game of ThronesStéphanie Genz, Edge Hill University, UKAbout the ContributorsFull BibliographyIndex

A new collection of essays, Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones and Multiple Media Engagements explores the role and representation of women in Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books and its cultural adaptations.