Media and Gender Adaptation - Regendering, Critical Creation and the Fans

Media and Gender Adaptation examines the narrative process of fans and media that change the gender of existing characters, offering creative political and social praxis, gender identity excavation and communication, in addition to illustrating a ''different point of view'' for a text. Regendering - or gender swapping - is prevalent in many fan and commercial works, such as the Ghostbusters reboot, Doctor Who, and multiple versions of Sherlock Holmes . Lucy Baker combines sociological research with fans and professionals who have used regendering as a way to adapt existing works, and literary or media analysis for popular fannish and professional regendered material. Media and Gender Adaptation not only provides data about the fans of regendered works, but also the way those fan and audiences approach gender in the media they consume. In addition, she includes interviews with the creators around the increasingly difficult questions of representation, and diversity, at both professional and non-professional levels of engagement.>

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Baker, Lucy Irene Baker, Baker Lucy
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781501370113
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-7011-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Film history, theory or criticism