Although the terms media fan and media fandom originally referred to science fiction media, as media fans got into new fandoms and published media fanzines for buddy cop shows and other nonsf media they liked, the scope of media fandom broadened. By using the term fans we can refer to individuals who have a particular liking or affection for a range of popular cultural texts, celebrities, sports teams, or artifacts. He also states that fans online connect with others all over the world, often responding in real time to the same texts, conspiring to spread compelling media content from one culture to the other. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture by lucy bennett and paul booth, eds. Essay about fandom in popular culture 19 words bartleby. Fans and fandom have been subjected to moral surveillance, and a powerfully moralizing gaze, throughout film history. As a form of popular culture fandom, cosplay constitutes a participatory and communal. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture by lucy bennett and paul booth. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture, edited by lucy bennett and paul booth.
This critique identifies the difficulty of isolating out one medium in order to identify television fans,17 given that fans tend to carry their investment in a tv show into the cultural consumption of secondary texts, e. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture get seeing fans. A companion to media fandom and fan studies wiley online. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture, edited by. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture by. With a foreword by matt hills, understanding fandom introduces the whole field of fan research by looking at the history of debate, key paradigms and methodological issues. Fandom in media and popular culture adaptation oxford. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especiallycommissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together provide an unparalleled overview of this fastgrowing field. Horror films are allegedly sick and twisted and those who enjoy them are wrong in the head according to horrors many antifans. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. It selects from the repertoire of massproduced and massdistributed entertainment certain performers, narratives or genres and takes them into the culture of a selfselected fraction of the people.
Although writers dealing with western fans of japanese anime and manga have noted these fans positive revaluation of the term otaku schodt 1996 and. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from elvis impersonators to xphiles and trekkers, hills discusses a range of approaches to fandom, from the frankfurt school to psychoanalytic readings, and asks whether the development of new media creates the possibility of. Fan cultures by matt hills, 2002 online research library. The japanese term otaku is similar to pathologising representations of media fandom in the us and uk where fans are stereotyped as geeks. Lucy teaches and designed the undergraduate degree modules.
Representations of fandom in media and popular culture,ed. To the contrary, fandom is a complex and productive process through. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture, edited by bennett, lucy, booth, paul, 209 20. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan orlando jones. A range of ideas has emerged to explore different facets of this growing phenomenon. Whereas media fandom might allow us to define, culturally, what sort. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including transformative works and cultures and the journal of fandom studies.
The holocaust in adventures in odysseys escape to the hiding place. Praise for a companion to media fandom and fan studies. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especiallycommissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together provide an unparalleled overview of this fast. The unique social environment surrounding rocky horror points to some of the fascinating ways in which fandom alters and even creates new cultural experiences out of popular media texts. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan orlando jones sleepy hollow, whose recent work on fandom appearing with henry jenkins at comic con and speaking at the fan studies network. Antifans are people who are passionate about a media text, but negatively so. Mel stanfill university of central florida college of. Girls just want to have fun, ehrenreich, et al are female fans the same as groupies. Request pdf on mar 20, 2018, simone driessen and others published. There are many forms of fan culture but the most popular categories are. Production by fans looks at fans as producers of popular culture fan letters to pop stars and music production. Essays on participatory fandom in the 21st century kristin m. An introduction to the study of media fan culture is therefore quite valuable as a primer. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture pdf file from our online library.
A case study of maletofemale crossplay rachel leng. Dr lucy bennett is a lecturer in the cardiff school of journalism, media and culture, cardiff university, with research interests and expertise in popular music and media, fandom and fan cultures, and media audiences. It was foregrounded in my initial encounters with fan studies, sitting in anna mccarthys television studies course and reading henry jenkinss textual poachers 1992 as an nyu undergraduate. Regimes of truth, one direction fans and representations of enfreakment.
In commonsense terms, the fan audience whether socially organized into fandom or not has typically been represented as a bit weird, excessively emotional in relation to favored stars, too interested in the trivia of films production and the miniscule details of close. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture analyzes the representations of fans in the mass media through a diverse range of perspectives. By means of a qualitative analysis of superfans, a fivepart reality television series in which fans are followed in their daily activities, ranging from singing along at concerts to intimate camera confessions in a room dedicated to their idol, this article studies the representation of fandom in mainstream television and participants and. Persons literature literature societies, etc mass media popular culture science fiction science fiction fans science fiction fans societies, etc social science general social science media studies social science. Racialculturalethnic identity in global media fandom.
Fans and industry considers the extent to which the television industry regards fans as valuable to their enterprise. A companion to media fandom and fan studies, 319, 2018. River steinberg fandom in popular culture everyone is a fan of something. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan orlando jones sleepy hollow, whose recent work on fandom appearing with henry jenkins at comic con and speaking at the fan studies network symposium bridges the worlds of academia and the media. Racialculturalethnic identity in global media fandom, in seeing fans. The book discusses insights from scholars working with fans of different texts, genres and. Millions of jews died in that war it was a bad time. My experience of fan culture, my conception of fan studies as a field, and my own fan scholarly identity are intimately bound up with feminism. Fansor in other words, those who actively consume popular culture and dedicate themselves to a particular book, film, show and so onare the ones who create an alternate narrative where the one in charge, and the one upon whom the spotlight lies is no longer the straight, white, cisgendered male. Using a variety of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, we will be.
This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan orlando jones sleepy hollow, whose recent work on fandom appearing with henry jenkins at comic con and speaking at the fan studies network symposium bridges the worlds of. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture, 209220, 2016. Jenson the ideological role of stars for fans, dyerstacey cultural politics and the everyday lives of fans understanding fandom beatlemania. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture with paul booth, bloomsbury, 2016 and crowdfunding the future with bertha chin and bethan jones, peter lang, 2015. Media fen have also adopted books, comics, video games, animemanga, and real people as sources for their fanworks. The cultural economy of fandom john fiske fandom is a common feature of popular culture in industrial societies. 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. Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, matt hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory. E fans of these franchises generated creative products like fan art and fan fiction at a time when typical science fiction fandom was focused on critical discussions. Pdf remembering dennis potter through fans extras and.
Media fandom split from science fiction fandom in the early 1970s with a focus on relationships between characters within tv and movie media franchises, such as star trek and the man from u. In the last few decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central mode of consumption. Split into four sections, seeing fans analyzes the representations of fans in the mass media through a diverse range of perspectives. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan orlando jones sleepy hollow, whose recent work on fandom appearing with henry jenkins at comic con and speaking at the fan studies network symposium bridges the worlds of academia and the media industry. Representations of fandom in media and popular culture. This collection opens with a preface by noted actor and fan orlando jones sleepy hollow, whose recent work on fandom.
These individuals typically displaying an affective relationship. Whether its a sports team, celebrity, or television show there is at least one thing that a person enjoys to partake in, talk about, etc. Fandom and gender examines the hysterical response to the beatles, female fantasies of elvis and groupies. Fandom in media and popular culture oxford academic journals. A fan is an enthusiast of something and now the internet is a good home for fans to gather and build together a community of fans, a fandom.
Fandom in media and popular culture adaptation oxford academic. Media paratexts 2010, television entertainment and watching with the. For the next 12 months, we will be embarking on a yearlong study on fandom. Fan culture is something that has been around for a while, but it the last twenty years, since the introduction of the internet, it is also something that has changed dramatically. Online fan communities and the media essay fan culture. Chapter 8 media fandom and audience subcultures 191 experience of the film, which allows participants to interact with the screen and with each other. Analysis of production and content of flemish televisions superfans article pdf available in european journal of cultural studies 196. Paul booth is an american media scholar and a professor of digital communication and media arts at depaul university in chicago, illinois. Split into four sections, seeing fans analyzes the representations of fans in the mass media. Yet when does becoming too much of a fan or a fanatic become a problem.
691 329 1291 1069 138 1305 1558 395 843 530 110 336 1320 649 1109 727 1401 1310 87 1386 1186 199 196 601 1305 162 995 583 855 61 625 1206 1490 338 1492 780 1004 60 393 831 356