In a world where social normes are created and shared trough popular global media, it becomes crutial for adacemia to analise and understand the information that is shared trough those chanells. In this regard, TV shows have been a significant driving force behind a new age of global social values, as well as instrumental in perpatuating some old- not always positive- norms (??) This paper avaluates the major characteristics of characters portrayed in the TV show Game of Thrones in an effort to see what message and behavior it is trasmitting to its avdience.
The theoretical background will be grounded in the Feminist perspective drawn from the works of Ott and Mack (2010).
Game of thrones: The show itself has been a huge success, reaching- in its five seasons and 50 episodes- a constant audience of more than 50 million people(??) per episode. It has been been broadcast in 150 countries. It has been not only popular, …show more content…
All characters, or a vast majority of them, shows a gray character, developing with the story. This gives the show, unaffected from its fantasy-world setting, a realistic real-world feeling. By not keeping to the standard borders of main stream shows, Game of Thrones rellys on a shock factor to keep its audience. From incest, homosexualism, betrayal and very liberal approach to the topic of sex and sexual identification the show’s ability to shape discourse of fans and their approach to the- traditionally taboo- topics is quite powerful. Not all of these topics, shown with a very casual, day-to-day approach did sit well with the audience, but the exposure of the public to such a discourse, while keeping and expanding its fan-base, shows the power of a good story carried by well written
The theoretical background will be grounded in the Feminist perspective drawn from the works of Ott and Mack (2010).
Game of thrones: The show itself has been a huge success, reaching- in its five seasons and 50 episodes- a constant audience of more than 50 million people(??) per episode. It has been been broadcast in 150 countries. It has been not only popular, …show more content…
All characters, or a vast majority of them, shows a gray character, developing with the story. This gives the show, unaffected from its fantasy-world setting, a realistic real-world feeling. By not keeping to the standard borders of main stream shows, Game of Thrones rellys on a shock factor to keep its audience. From incest, homosexualism, betrayal and very liberal approach to the topic of sex and sexual identification the show’s ability to shape discourse of fans and their approach to the- traditionally taboo- topics is quite powerful. Not all of these topics, shown with a very casual, day-to-day approach did sit well with the audience, but the exposure of the public to such a discourse, while keeping and expanding its fan-base, shows the power of a good story carried by well written