Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World
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Book title: Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World.
Contributors: Jonathan Gray - Editor, Cornel Sandvoss - Editor, C. Lee Harrington - Editor.
Publisher: New York University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2007.
Page number: 221.
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Table of contents
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Part I - Fan Texts 17
- 1: The Death of the Reader? Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture 19
- 2: Media Academics as Media Audiences Aesthetic Judgments in Media and Cultural Studies 33
- 3: Yoko in Cyberspace with Beatles Fans Gender and the Re-Creation of Popular Mythology 48
- 4: Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and the Rights of the Author 60
- Part II - Beyond Pop Culture 73
- 5: The News You Gotta Love It 75
- 6: The Fans of Cultural Theory 88
- 7: Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians 98
- 8: Fans of Chekhov Re-Approaching “high Culture” 110
- Part III - Spaces of Fandom 123
- 9: Place, Elective Belonging, and the Diffused Audience 125
- 10: On the Set of the Sopranos “inside” a Fan's Construction of Nearness 139
- 11: A Sort of Homecoming Fan Viewing and Symbolic Pilgrimage 149
- 12: From Smart Fan to Backyard Wrestler Performance, Context, and Aesthetic Violence 165
- Part IV - Fan Audiences Worldwide from the Global to the Local 177
- 13: Global Fandom/Global Fan Studies 179
- 14: Between Rowdies and Rasikas Rethinking Fan Activity in Indian Film Culture 198
- 15: Beyond Kung-Fu and Violence Locating East Asian Cinema Fandom 210
- 16: Han Suk-Kyu and the Gendered Cultural Economy of Stardom and Fandom 220
- Part V - Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures 233
- 17: Loving Music Listeners, Entertainments, and the Origins of Music Fandom in Nineteenth-Century America 235
- 18: Girls Allowed? the Marginalization of Female Sport Fans 250
- 19: Customer Relationship Management Automating Fandom in Music Communities 261
- 20: Playing the Game Performance in Digital Game Audiences 271
- Part VI - Fans and Anti-Fans 283
- 21: Fan-Tagonism Factions, Institutions, and Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom 285
- 22: Untidy Fan Response to the Soiling of Martha Stewart's Spotless Image 301
- 23: The Anti-Fan Within the Fan Awe and Envy in Sport Fandom 316
- 24: A Vacancy at the Paris Hilton 328
- 25: The Other Side of Fandom Anti-Fans, Non-Fans, and the Hurts of History 344
- 26: Afterword the Future of Fandom 357
- Bibliography 365
- About the Contributors 393
- Index 399
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