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

by Lucy Baker

Media and Gender Adaptation examines how fans and professionals change the gender of characters when they adapt existing work. Using research into fans, and case studies on Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters and Doctor Who, it illustrates the foundation of the process and ways the works engage with and critique media and gender at a political level. The default maleness of narratives in media are reworked to be inclusive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501370111
• ISBN13: 9781501370113
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"