Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers
Original language description
Medievalist female characters appear with regularity in popular comics (such as Natasha Alterici’s Heathen) and their popularity leads them to be optioned for major TV series or movies (as Heathen has been). Though the Viking heroine of Heathen sports an ironically stereotypical ‘barbarian bikini’, inherited from Red Sonja and codified through decades of pop culture permutations, she is a distinctly political, feminist, and queer character. How can the demeaning, and often derided, medievalist fantasy dress of female characters be intentionally repurposed to present entirely modern social values? This paper looks at the development and transmission of the medievalist simulacra in comics through the lens of Actor-Network Theory, following in particular the costume simulacra of female characters in fantasy comics as the chain mail bikini moves through feminist theory into the fandom. The medievalist bikini has been exalted, discarded, and reformed in as many ways as female heroism has been reinvented in comics throughout the last few decades.
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
21st Century Medievalisms: Between The Global And Individual
ISBN
978-615-6405-76-0
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
1-22
Number of pages of the book
358
Publisher name
Trivent Publishing
Place of publication
Semmelweis University, Budapest
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