Media and Reality in the “Game of Thrones”

Abstract

The Games of Thrones series success provokes activity in trying to comprehend it as a kind of  separate reality as well as correlating it with the modern world actualities. The article gives a summary of existing research approaches and raises the question of what lays behind the series success. What kind of verbalized or hidden in the content ideas get into the nerve of the modern western world audience. The author hypothesizes that the Medieval fantasy world gives, in fact, a description of some modern ontological and social myths with are in the process of forming or already actualized as a future possibility but are not being discussed in public. Thematically these myths are referred to the modern understanding of religion, individual perspective, desacralization of the cultural heritage and love relationship, personal experience of the globalization. A special item is the series finale with contradicts main patterns of modern storytelling based on the modern cultural codes.