Politics in Fantasy Media
Subtitle: Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland; McFarland & Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780786495108
Subjects: Politics in literature; Politics in motion pictures
Description: "In spite or rather because of their depiction of other worlds allegedly disconnected from our own, these texts are able to actualize political attitudes. Instead of categorizing fantasy either as conservative or progressive, the essays suggest that its generic peculiarity allows the emergence of productive forms of oscillation between these extremes"--