Crisis of secularity in the transmedia universe of “Game of Thrones”
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2024-2-156-171
Abstract
Social reality of the “Game of Thrones” is considered in this article not as a model or a kind of reconstruction of Middle Ages reality. On the contrary we argue that “Game of Thrones” as well as original “Song of Ice and Fire” should be studied through the prism of social and cultural trens of the 20th – beginning of 21st centuries. Special attention is paid to the issue of secularity and its crisis occurred on the different levels of transmedia storytelling of the “Game of Thrones”.
Supporting agencies: The publication was prepared within the framework of the Academic Fund Program at HSE University (grant no. 22-00-070 “Remediation of Mythology and Actual Transmedia Practices: Literature, Cinema, Video Games”)
About the Author
M. A. Shteynman
HSE University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria A. Shteynman, Cand. of Sci. (Philology), professor
109028; 11, Pokrovskii Blv.; Moscow
email: mshteynman@hse.ru
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Shteynman M.A. Crisis of secularity in the transmedia universe of “Game of Thrones”. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2024;(2):156-171. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2024-2-156-171
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