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Although the universe of “Game of Thrones” evokes the medieval era, several key figures in the series are directly inspired by characters from Roman antiquity.
From the Joker to a Game of Thrones prequel, origin stories are increasingly common in film and TV – perhaps at the expense of originality in popular culture.
It’s tempting to go along with the notion of Daenerys as Mad Queen in Game of Thrones, but what if, instead Dany was the real heroine of the series, and Jon Snow the real heel?
Some lessons from leadership theory for anyone aspiring to sit on the Iron Throne.
Fan culture is thriving in Westeros. Although HBO’s Game of Thrones has ended, fans will ensure that the show lives on (and changes) across multimedia platforms, long into the future.
Even in this fantasy world, geological processes like tectonic plate movement, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions would have built the mountains, carved the rivers, and created vast oceans.
Vudu, Apple TV+, Disney +, NBC Universal: there’s going to be a lot of blood on the carpet.
There’s a big difference between rehoming and abandonment.
The young assassin and wannabe knight stand in the background but if their medieval influences are anything to go by, they could end up leading the final battle.
The original origins of some key characters names might give hints to their fates in Game of Thrones.
We’ve watched the youngest Stark daughter grow from a tomboy to a trained killer. Now she’s come into her own.
For HBO, online piracy is not the huge issue it represents for the platforms that screen its content.
Human civilisation is threatened by long-dead organisms, whether as White Walkers or petrol.
For all its queer characters, Westeros is a gender binary world.
The vast majority of stories told in movies, in books and on television conclude with happy endings – and this has real-world political consequences.
Facial recognition is a crucial skill, but difficult to test accurately. Researchers are taking advantage of the popularity of Game of Thrones to test the limits of our ability to identify a familiar face.
Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor like George Washington or Marie Antoinette, you might want to see how much DNA you actually share with these people. It’s not what you thought.
Our current golden age of TV storytelling is influenced by comic books, in particular, one writer: Chris Claremont pushed boundaries and gave audiences strong female leads and deeply involved dramas.
Films can be used to help understand international relations concepts.
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Professor of Medieval Literature and English Literature, Bangor University
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Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English, University of Oxford
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Management Science & Innovation, UCL
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Associate Professor of Screen Media, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury
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Director of the Centre for History Heritage and Memory Studies; Associate Professor in History, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Persuasive Language and Storytelling, SKEMA Business School
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Teaching Fellow in Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
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Director of the Research School of the Social Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the ANU, Australian National University
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Research Associate in Climatology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Media Cultures, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia, SOAS, University of London