Media and Gender Adaptation

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Lucy Irene Baker's Media and Gender Adaptation challenges us to look at fandom and its influence on the media in new and productive ways. In her thorough and detailed research, she demonstrates how regendering means more than just changing the character's gender; it's a way of unsettling the cultural narrative entirely. Baker explores the nuances of`a regendered main character through iterations both subcultural and mainstream - Elementary, Ghostbusters, and Doctor Who; fan work and beyond. In an era where toxic fandom dominates headlines, Baker's exploration offers a compelling counter. Sure to complicate and challenge, Media and Gender Adaptation takes fandom and fan studies in exciting new directions. * Paul Booth, Professor of Communication, DePaul University, USA * With Media and Gender Adaptation, Lucy Irene Baker has produced an enthralling and vital account of the ways that fans and professionals have powerfully adapted popular media works through regendering. Beautifully written and featuring a range of vibrant case studies on series such as Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters and Doctor Who, this text also features surveys and interviews with fans, creators and wider audiences. Through this, Baker valuably allows us to explore deeply the key factors at work within regendering, and the responses some media interpretations have received. This work is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in media and gender. * Lucy Bennett, Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture, Cardiff University, UK * In Media and Gender Adaptation, Lucy Irene Baker makes a substantial and welcome addition to the discipline of popular culture, media and fan studies by critically examining an understudied, yet widely popular phenomenon, that of "regendering" characters in popular media. This practice, in which well-known characters are presented as a different gender, is extremely prevalent both in mainstream media adaptations as well as fan created works, and is often a flashpoint for cultural debate. Baker's analysis encompasses these debates skillfully and brings together multiple threads to present a highly readable and cogent analysis that will be useful to scholars of popular media as well as general readers. * Rukmini Pande, Associate Professor, OP Jindal Global University, India *