TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gray,Jonathan
AU  - Sandvoss,Cornel
AU  - Harrington,C.Lee
TI  - Fandom: identities and communities in a mediated world 
SN  - 0814731813
AV  - HM646 .F36 2007
U1  - 306.487 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Fans (Persons)
KW  - Subculture
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-391) and index; Introduction : why study fans?; Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington --; Pt. I; Fan texts : from aesthetic to legal judgments --; 1; The death of the reader? : literary theory and the study of texts in popular culture; Cornel Sandvoss --; 2; Media academics as media audiences : aesthetic judgments in media and cultural studies; Matt Hills --; 3; Yoko in cyberspace with Beatles fans : gender and the re-creation of popular mythology; Christine Scodari --; 4; Copyright law, fan practices, and the rights of the author; Rebecca Tushnet --; Pt. II; Beyond pop culture : fandom from news to high culture --; 5; The news : you gotta love it; Jonathan Gray --; 6; The fans of cultural theory; Alan McKee --; 7; Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians; Roberta Pearson --; 8; Fans of Chekhov : re-approaching "high culture"; John Tulloch --; Pt. III; Spaces of fandom : from place to performance --; 9; Place, elective belonging, and the diffused audience; Brian Longhurst, Gaynor Bagnall and Mike Savage --; 10; On the set of The Sopranos : "inside" a fan's construction of nearness; Nick Couldry --; 11; A sort of homecoming : fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage; Will Brooker --; 12; From smart fan to backyard wrestler : performance, context, and aesthetic violence; Lawrence B. McBride and S. Elizabeth Bird --; Pt. IV; Fan audiences worldwide : from the global to the local --; 13; Global fandom/global fan studies; C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby --; 14; Between Rowdies and Rasikas : rethinking fan activity in Indian film culture; Aswin Punathambekar --; 15; Beyond Kung-Fu and violence : locating East Asian cinema fandom; Bertha Chin --; 16; Han Suk-kyu and the gendered : cultural economy of stardom and fandom; Anne Ciecko and Hunju Lee --; Pt. V; Shifting contexts, changing fan cultures : from concert halls to console games --; 17; Loving music : listeners, entertainments, and the origins of music fandom in nineteenth-century America; Daniel Cavicchi --; 18; Girls allowed? : the marginalization of female sports fans; Victoria K. Gosling --; 19; Customer relationship management : automating fandom in music communities; Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart --; 20; Playing the game : performance in digital game audiences; Garry Crawford and Jason Rutter --; Pt. VI; Fans and anti-fans : from love to hate --; 21; Fan-tagonism : factions, institutions, and constitutive hegemonies of fandom; Derek Johnson --; 22; Untidy : fan response to the soiling of Martha Stewart's spotless image; Melissa A. Click --; 23; The anti-fan within the fan : awe and envy in sport fandom; Vivi Theodoropoulou --; 24; A vacancy at the Paris Hilton; Jeffrey Sconce --; 25; The other side of fandom : anti-fans, non-fans, and the hurts of history; Diane F. Alters --; 26; Afterword : the future of fandom; Henry Jenkins
N2  - ""Fandom pushes the boundaries of fan studies in bold directions, incorporating high culture fandoms, global fan cultures, fan technologies, and antagonistic anti-fandom, while rethinking the core tenets of fan studies concerning aesthetics, place, intellectual property, and interpretive communities-all presented with a lively, accessible, and engaging writing style."-Jason Mittell, Middlebury College We are all fans. Whether we log on to Web sites to scrutinize the latest plot turns in Lost, "stalk" our favorite celebrities on Gawker, attend gaming conventions, or simply wait with bated breath for the newest Harry Potter novel-each of us is a fan. Fandom extends beyond television and film to literature, opera, sports, and pop music, and encompasses both high and low culture. Fandom brings together leading scholars to examine fans, their practices and favorite texts. This unparalleled selection of original essays examines instances across the spectrum of modern cultural consumption from Karl Marx to Paris Hilton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer to backyard wrestling, Bach fugues to Bollywood cinema? and 19th century concert halls to computer gaming. Contributors examine fans of high cultural texts and genres, the spaces of fandom, fandom around the globe, the impact of new technologies on fandom, and the legal and historical contexts of fan activity. Fandom is key to understanding modern life in our increasingly mediated, globalized world."--Publisher description
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