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• In Media Res
  Re: Appraising the adapted Red Wedding’s fidelity to emotional impact

  Thinking about fidelity

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  Andrea Nevitt Keele University

  Monday, September 22, 2014 — 8:33 pm

  Hi Sarah, thanks for the comment. I hadn’t thought about the degree of flexibility that the genre gives to the narrative, as you say, the way in which the ‘undead element’ has been used so far has added an interesting dimension to the show. I have found t ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Appraising the adapted Red Wedding’s fidelity to emotional impact

  Re: Every person has a code

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  Andrea Nevitt Keele University

  Tuesday, September 23, 2014 — 5:23 pm

  Thank you, Garret, The idea to study fans’ reactions to the adaptation of the Red Wedding in particular came fairly on in the development of the research strategy for my thesis. I needed to identify a scene that was both highly memorable and guaranteed to ...
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  Re: Appraising the adapted Red Wedding’s fidelity to emotional impact

  Re: The dagger in the womb

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  Andrea Nevitt Keele University

  Tuesday, September 23, 2014 — 5:46 pm

  Thank you, Thomas, I am enjoying the opportunity to kick off this week’s exciting topic! The violence of Talisa’s murder was commented on widely amongst the group of fans I am researching, and indeed amongst the wider GoT audience. As you say, there are p ...
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  Re: Creating Game of Thrones’ Cross-Demographic Appeal through Genre-Mixing Iconicity

  The familiar

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  Andrea Nevitt Keele University

  Tuesday, September 23, 2014 — 6:42 pm

  Garret, those are some very astute observations. The western genre isn’t my forte, but your post struck me as highlighting something that is evident across the promotion of modern fantasy texts. We’re all familiar with the strategies of those fantasy film ...