Overview

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. Section one focuses on the representations of fans in documentaries and news reports and includes an interview with Roger Nygard, director of Trekkies and Trekkies 2. The second section then examines fictional representations of fans through analyses of television and film, featuring interviews with Emily Perkins of Supernatural, Robert Burnett, director of the film Free Enterprise, and Luminosity, a fan who has been interviewed in the New York Magazine for her exemplary work in fandom. Section three explores cultural perspectives on fan representations, and includes an interview with Laurent Malaquais, director of Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony. Lastly, the final section looks at global perspectives on the ways fans have been represented and finishes with an interview with Jeanie Finlay, director of the music documentary Sound it Out. The collection then closes with an afterword by fan studies scholar Professor Matt Hills.

Full Product Details

Author:   Dr. Lucy Bennett (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Dr. Paul Booth (DePaul University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9781501318450

ISBN 10:   1501318454
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   14 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Orlando Jones Introduction Documenting Fans: Shades of Reality 1. Mark Duffett, “Beyond Exploitation Cinema: Music Fandom, Disability and Mission to Lars” 2. Rebecca Williams, “‘We Live Round Here Too’: Representing Fandom and Local Celebrity in Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets” 3. Sam Ford, “‘I Was Stabbed 21 Times by Crazy Fans’: Pro Wrestling and Popular Concerns with Immersive Story Worlds” 4. Interview with Roger Nygard, director of Trekkies (1997) Spotlight on: Crazy about One Direction 5. Bethan Jones, “‘I Will Throw You off Your Ship and You Will Drown and Die’: Death Threats, Intra-Fandom Hate and the Performance of Fangirling” 6. William Proctor, “A New Breed of Fan?: Regimes of Truth, One Directions Fans and Representations of Enfreakment” 7. Daisy Asquith (director of Crazy About One Direction), “Crazy About One Direction: Whose Shame Is It Anyway?” Fictional Fans: Reading Between the Lines 8. Interview with Robert Burnett, writer and director of Free Enterprise (1998) 9. Lincoln Geraghty, “Fans on Primetime: Representations of Fandom in Mainstream American Network Television, 1986—2014” 10. Karen Hellekson, “The Image of the Fan in Stargate SG-1” 11. Melissa Click & Nettie Brock, “Marking the Line Between Producers and Fans: Representations of Fannish-ness in and around Doctor Who and Sherlock” 12. Ellen Kirkpatrick, “Hero-Fans and Fanboy Auteurs: Reflections and Realities of Superhero Fans” 13. Katherine Larsen and Lynn Zubernis, “We See You (Sort of): Representations of Fans on Supernatural” 14. Interview with Emily Perkins, actor in Supernatural Spotlight on: Fan and Transmedia Works 15. Kristina Busse, “Beyond Mary Sue: Fan Representation and the Complex Negotiation of Gendered Identity” 16. Louisa Stein, “The Digital Literary Fangirl Network: Representing Fannishness in the Transmedia Web Series” 17. Interview with Luminosity, fan and vidder Cultural Perspectives on Fan Representations 18. Mel Stanfill, “The Fandom Menace: Representing Failed Heteronormativity, the Redemption Narrative, and Whiteness” 19. Ruth A Deller, “Outdoor Queuing, Knicker-Throwing and 100th Birthday Greetings: Newspaper Narratives of Mature Female Fans” 20. Rukmini Pande, “Squee from the Margins: Racial/Cultural/Ethnic Identity in Global Media Fandom” 21. Interview with Laurent Malaquais, director of Bronies (2012) Global Perspectives on Fandom 22. Darlene Hampton, “Slashy Rotten Pervs: Transcultural Representation of Sherlock Slash Fans and the Politics of Pathologization” 23. Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, “The Good Fandom: Depicting Japanese Female Fans in Moonlight Express, Moumantai, and Hong Kong Star Fans” 24. Nicolle Lamerichs, “Otaku: Representations of Fandom in Japanese Popular Culture” 25. Interview with Jeanie Finlay, director of Sound It Out (2011) Conclusion Afterword. Matt Hills, Participating in Hybrid Media Logics?

Reviews

At a time when fans-as cosplayers, Comic Con attendees, consumers, practitioners as well as financiers of crowdfunding projects-are permeating the media and public consciousness, this collection arrives at a critical moment to examine how fans are being represented by various stakeholders, from the perspectives of aca-fans, media practitioners and fan producers themselves. This excellent collection will undoubtedly add to the richness and expansion of the field of fan studies. Bertha Chin, Lecturer of Communication, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia The publication of this engaging collection, thirty years after Saturday Night Live aired a sketch with William Shatner telling the nerdy, obsessive Trekkies to 'get a life', could not be more timely. The chapters, a refreshing combination of critical analyses and interviews, explore representations of media fans in a range of genres and texts across cultures. The takeaway is that actors, content producers, fan scholars and fans themselves continue to grapple with negative stereotypes while refusing to be limited by them. Rhiannon Bury, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Athabasca University, Canada

The publication of this engaging collection, thirty years after Saturday Night Live aired a sketch with William Shatner telling the nerdy, obsessive Trekkies to 'get a life', could not be more timely. The chapters, a refreshing combination of critical analyses and interviews, explore representations of media fans in a range of genres and texts across cultures. The takeaway is that actors, content producers, fan scholars and fans themselves continue to grapple with negative stereotypes while refusing to be limited by them. Rhiannon Bury, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, Athabasca University, Canada

Author Information

Lucy Bennett is a researcher at JOMEC, Cardiff University, UK. Paul Booth is Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at DePaul University, USA.

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