Making European Cult Cinema : : Fan Enterprise in an Alternative Economy / / Oliver Carter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Carter, Oliver,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Transmedia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Fan Enterprise as an Alternative Economy --; 2. Researching an Alternative Economy --; 3. Defining European Cult Cinema --; 4. Historicizing the Alternative Economy of European Cult Cinema Fan Enterprise --; 5. Sharing European Cult Cinema : Encouraging and Rewarding Fan Enterprise --; 6. Informal Enterprises: Selling European Cult Cinema --; Conclusion: Making Fandoms --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048529063; 9783110667318; 9783110606720
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048529063?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Oliver Carter.

Fans of cult films don't just watch the movies they love-they frequently engage with them in other, more creative ways as well. Making European Cult Cinema explores the ways in which that fandom could be understood as an alternative economy of fan enterprise, through a close look at how fans produce and distribute artifacts and commodities related to cult films. Built around interviews and ethnographic observations-and even the author's own fan enterprise-the book creates an innovative theoretical framework that draws in ideas from cultural studies and political economy to introduce the concept of an 'alternative economy' as a way to understand fan productions.