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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Fan studies"”.
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Laugh out loud in real life : women's humor and fan identity
The emerging field of fan studies has, until recently, been defined only by the research that has taken place within it. Almost universally, this research focuses on self-identified fans. However, scholars are beginning to examine and debate what the limits of the field should be. This study argues …
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Interrogating tweendom online: ‘Fangirl as Pathology’, gender/age, and iCarly fandom
Since the early 1990s, fan studies has sought to counter perceptions of the ‘pathology of fandom’ and the devaluation of fans as feminine and infantile. In recent years, some scholars have claimed that fans are newly normalised in popular culture, and it is no longer necessary to contest …
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"I'm Your Biggest Fan, I'll Follow You ... " Lady Gaga, Little Monsters and the Religious Dimension of Fandom in Pop Music
This thesis examines the religious dimension of fandom in popular music, taking as an object of reflection Lady Gaga and her fans. I combine fan studies with theories of immanence as well as Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the process of becoming, and provide a theoretical reading of the …
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Fantastic religion : fandom as religious practice
… the theoretical and tangible implications of fandom as a meaningful category within the field of Religious Studies and to illuminate a theoretical framework based in functionalist definitions of religion as a tool for fan studies analysis. Religion encompasses the processes by which …
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Distracted spectatorship, the cinematic experience and franchise films
… to embodied experience of film spectatorship and fandom. Drawing on theoretical grounding from film theory, classical cultural studies and fan studies, the study sheds light on how inhabiting the position of distracted spectator involves maintaining several identities simultaneously. The thesis …
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The animated gaystream: how streaming services, social media, adult fandom, and the visibility of creators have influenced representations of gender and sexuality in twenty-first century U.S. children’s animation
… and HBOMax have shifted the dynamics between fans, creators and network. In so doing, it analyses the interactions between adult fans and creators of American children’s animation in ways that have been as of yet unexplored. The research is important because it acknowledges the significance of …
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Fandom and beyond: online community, culture and Kevin Smith fandom
Fan studies literature has frequently been pervaded by the prevailing assumptions of what constitutes “fans” and their associated activities: fan art or fantext, cosplay, conjecture, activism – the things that fans supposedly do by definition –are those to which scholarly attention has most been …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
… across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has been collected over a period of four years for the purpose of …
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VENI, VIDI, VIDS: TRANSFORMING CULTURAL NARRATIVES THROUGH THE ART OF AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLING
The focus of this research is “fanvids” which are the creative work of fans that combine clips or images from a visual “canon” source (usually a television series or movie) to music to create an alternative narrative. By using qualitative content analysis methods, I sampled from the television show …
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Adapting Anime: Transnational Media between Japan and the United States
… it develops a theory called the "database fantasyscape" as a way of discussing such transnational flows. In short, the "database" refers to how contemporary media products are assembled from a matrix of constituent elements into combinations that are simultaneously unique and familiar, …
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Minding the gaps: deducing meaning in Sherlock Holmes fanfiction
<p>Online fanfiction communities are increasingly coming to light as an independent manifestation of an (often queer) interpretation of popular media. This paper investigates the different causes of this phenomenon, how the participants craft individual meaning that addresses perceived gaps in …
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Fanfiction As: Searching for Significance in the Academic Realm
… bland consumption into active participation is fan culture, especially activities such as writing fanfiction.</p> <p>What is fanfiction? To give a broad definition, fanfiction is a work of fiction written by a fan that uses the characters, storyworld, or plot of an already existing form of media …
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WATCHING YOU, WATCHING ME: REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE FANS AND FANDOM IN ACADEMIA, NEWS MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
… of the representation of female participatory fandom, including scholarly work on fandom from the 1980s to the present, recent news media coverage of fan fiction, and a case study of fan responses to their own representation on the television series Supernatural. I will argue that outsider …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… my study concerns issues of women’s history, fandom, and social identity (gender, cultural, and national). Taking a musicological, ethnographic, and historical approach, I examine gender performativity as it pertains to those women performers who play the leading male role-type (the …
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Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'comic Book' Superhero
… of revenue generated, the formation of new fans, and the interests of comic publishers’ parent companies all suggest that superhero film adaptations are the medium most associated with the superhero character. Such a monumental shift in the distribution of superheroes—comic books were long …
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Ludological Storytelling and Unique Narrative Experiences in Silent Hill Downpour
… Downpour, I examine the ways in which the loyal fans of the Silent Hill franchise discuss the franchise’s narrative elements online through internet message boards and social media, allowing a more focused analysis of how individual player experiences affect an audience’s perception of narrative …
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Modeling participatory literacy (in your pants): An analysis of print and new media convergence in the Vlogbrothers' YouTube videos
… into modeling behavior for their adolescent fan-base. The research further describes how the Vlogbrothers create social, networked spaces where their fans can participate in literacy practices and how they use the YouTube platform to engage their fans more fully in those practices. The …
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Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform and Community in an Online Fandom
… of feminism, platform and community on the fandom of Sarah J Maas (SJM) novels on the social network site Tumblr. The goals are to show how a shift to an open social network site has changed the practice of fandom and how various feminisms are applied to popular culture and learned through …
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Transmedia consumption experiences: consuming and co-creating interrelated stories across media
… (1984) and Jenkins (1992) on nomadic behavior of fans, this dissertation identifies migration –– consumers' navigation behavior across media platforms –– as one of the salient processes of TMC and explores patterns, motivators, and barriers of transmedial migration. The findings of this study have …