Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy

Taylor & Francis

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular FantasyBeyond boy wizards and kick-ass chicks\nAuthor(s): Jude Roberts, Esther MacCallum-Stewart\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472447531, 978-1472447531\nSynopsis\nThis 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 s.