Killer Fandom : : Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer / / Judith May Fathallah.

Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith...

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Superior document:Media Manifold Series ; vol. 2.
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Place / Publishing House:Bethlehem, PA : : mediastudies.press,, 2023.
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Media Manifold Series ; vol. 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (i-xii+244 pages):; 9 illustrations, 7 tables.
Notes:Available through mediastudies.press.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • - 1. Fanlike Engagement before Fan Studies: Personators, Collectors, and Groupies
  • - 2. Textual Poaching to Discursive Formations: Serial Killers and Fannish Creation
  • - 3. Affect, Bonding, Boundaries: Is There Serial Killer Fan Community?
  • - 4. Killer Fandom and (Sub)Cultural Capital
  • - 5. Serial Killer Fandom as Digital Play
  • - References
  • - Acknowledgments