Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

21st Century Medievalisms: Between The Global And Individual

ISBN

978-615-6405-76-0

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

1-22

Počet stran knihy

358

Název nakladatele

Trivent Publishing

Místo vydání

Semmelweis University, Budapest

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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