Fandom, Second Edition : : Identities and Communities in a Mediated World / / ed. by C. Lee Harrington, Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss.

A completely updated edition of a seminal work on fans and communities We are all fans. Whether we follow our favorite celebrities on Twitter, attend fan conventions such as Comic Con, or simply wait with bated breath for the next episode of our favorite television drama-each of us is a fan. Recogni...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Why still study fans?
  • Part I. Fan texts and objects
  • 1. The death of the reader?: literary theory and the study of texts in popular culture
  • 2. Intimate intertextuality and performative fragments in media fanfiction
  • 3. Media academics as media audiences: aesthetic judgments in media and cultural studies
  • 4. Copyright law, fan practices, and the rights of the author (2017)
  • 5. Toy fandom, adulthood, and the ludic age: creative material culture as play
  • Part II. Spaces of fandom
  • 6. Loving music: listeners, entertainments, and the origins of music fandom in nineteenth- century America
  • 7. Resisting technology in music fandom: nostalgia, authenticity, and Kate bush’s “before the dawn”
  • 8. I scream therefore i fan?: music audiences and affective citizenship
  • 9. A sort of homecoming: fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage
  • 10. Reimagining the imagined community: online media fandoms in the age of global convergence
  • Part III. Temporalities of fandom
  • 11. Do all “good things” come to an end?: revisiting Martha Stewart fans after imclone
  • 12. The lives of fandoms
  • 13. “what are you collecting now?”: Seth, comics, and meaning management
  • 14. Sex, utopia, and the queer temporalities of fannish love
  • Part IV. The fan citizen: fan politics and activism
  • 15. the news: you gotta love it
  • 16. memory, archive, and history in political fan fiction
  • 17. Between rowdies and rasikas: rethinking fan activity in Indian film culture
  • 18. Black twitter and the politics of viewing scandal
  • 19. Deploying oppositional fandoms: activists’ use of sports fandom in the redskins controversy
  • Part V. Fan labor and fan- producer interactions
  • 20. Ethics of fansubbing in anime’s hybrid public culture
  • 21. Live from Hall H: Fan/Producer Symbiosis at San Diego Comic- Con
  • 22. Fantagonism: Factions, Institutions, and Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom
  • 23. The Powers That Squee: Orlando Jones and Intersectional Fan Studies
  • 24. Measuring Fandom: Social TV Analytics and the Integration of Fandom into Television Audience Measurement
  • About the Contributors
  • Index