Postmodern historical- fantastic set design in the series The Game of Thrones

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/aris.79906
Keywords: Game of Thrones, sets, art-Direction, postmodern-appropiation, intertextuality

Abstract

We analyze the "cinematographic scenographies" of the HBO series Game of Thrones (Game of Thrones, 2011-2019) from an interdisciplinary hermeneutic. In this way, we highlight the processes of creation of these scenographies from the preceding cinematographic experiences, guided by a fantastic and spectacular logic (a creative eclecticism that did not renounce pastiche or even kitsch). Game of Thrones, however, responds to a post-postmodern neo-medievalism and its scenographies have been reworked according to a postmodern aesthetic that responds to intermediality, intertextuality and appropriation, with the support of digital technology and its painstaking effects.

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Javier Hernández-Ruiz, Universidad Camilo José Cela

Accredited Full Professor, he has taught art, film, communication, new media and transmedia oriented teaching at UNIZAR, Universidad Europea, Escuela de Cine de la Comunidad de Madrid (ECAM), ESNE, Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Social Sciences from 2017 to 2020, and now at ESIC University. Author of numerous publications on theory, film history and film scenographies (17 monographs, 38 chapters and 37 articles) and recently on transmedia. One of his lines of research concerns precisely the cinematographic scenographies, already since his book Escenarios de la fantasía (UNIZAR, 1990).

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Published
2022-06-27
How to Cite
Tejeda C. y Hernández-Ruiz J. (2022). Postmodern historical- fantastic set design in the series The Game of Thrones. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 34(4), 1503-1515. https://doi.org/10.5209/aris.79906
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Vol. 34 No. 4 (2022)
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