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A companion to media fandom and fan studies

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A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies offers scholars and fans an accessible and engaging resource for understanding the rapidly expanding field of fan studies. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especially-commissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together provide an unparalleled overview of this fast-growing field. Separated into five sections--Histories, Genealogies, Methodologies; Fan Practices; Fandom and Cultural Studies; Digital Fandom; and The Future of Fan Studies--the book synthesizes literature surrounding important theories, debates, and issues within the field of fan studies. It also traces and explains the social, historical, political, commercial, ethical, and creative dimensions of fandom and fan studies. Exploring both the historical and the contemporary fan situation, the volume presents fandom and fan studies as models of 21st century production and consumption, and identifies the emergent trends in this unique field of study

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A companion to media fandom and fan studies

In: Wiley Blackwell companions to cultural studies

Booth, Paul

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editor Biography -- Contributor Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Histories, Genealogies, Methodologies -- Chapter 1: Fandom, Negotiation, and Participatory Culture -- Negotiated Readings -- Interpretive Communities, Subcultures, and Imaginative Publics -- Fandom as Participatory Culture -- References -- Chapter 2: Foundational Discourses of Fandom -- Mental Intoxication -- Peopling the Self -- Managing the Multitude -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Literature Fandom and Literary Fans -- Fandom in Literary Scholarship -- The Birth of US Media Fandom: An Alternate History -- Literary Fandom in The Saturday Review of Literature -- Literary Fan Studies: Moving Forward -- References -- Chapter 4: The Fan Experience -- Founding Fandom: Hugo Gernsback and the Science Fiction League -- Media Fandom and Fan Advocacy -- Fans and Technology: Medium and Message -- Fans and Producers: Beyond Gift Culture -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Soap Fans, Revisited -- Fan‐Industry Relations -- Fan‐Object Specificity -- Identities, Practices, and Communities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Not My Lifeblood: Autoethnography, Affective Fluctuations and Popular Music Antifandom -- Autoethnography‐as‐Method and Studying Life Fandoms -- Accounting for Affective Fluctuations -- Lifeblood as Antifandom Object -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Representations of Fans and Fandom in the British Newspaper Media -- Fans and Media Representation -- Methodology -- January 2000 -- January 2005 -- January 2010 -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Ethics in Fan Studies Research -- Institutional and Organizational Parameters -- Establishing Your Research: Common Ethical Considerations