Fandom : identities and communities in a mediated world /
edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington ; with an afterword by Henry Jenkins.
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
- ix, 406 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-391) and index.
Why study fans? / Death of the reader? : literary theory and the study of texts in popular culture / Media academics as media audiences : aesthetic judgments in media and cultural studies / Yoko in cyberspace with Beatles fans : gender and the re-creation of popular mythology / Copyright law, fan practices, and the rights of the author / News : you gotta love it / Fans of cultural theory / Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians / Fans of Chekhov : re-approaching "high culture" / Place, elective belonging, and the diffused audience / On the set of The Sopranos : "inside" a fan's construction of nearness / Sort of homecoming : fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage / From smart fan to backyard wrestler : performance, context, and aesthetic violence / Global fandom/global fan studies / Between rowdies and rasikas : rethinking fan activity in Indian film culture / Belong kung-fu and violence : locating East Asian cinema fandom / Han Suk-kyu and the gendered cultural economy of stardom and fandom / Loving music : listeners, entertainments, and the origins of music fandom in nineteenth-century America / Girls allowed? : the marginalization of female sports fans / Customer relationship management : automating fandom in music communities / Playing the game : performance in digital game audiences / Fan-tagonism : factions, institutions, and constitutive hegemonies of fandom / Untidy : fan response to the soiling of Martha Stewart's spotless image / Anti-fan within the fan : awe and envy in sport fandom / Vacancy at the Paris Hilton / Other side of fandom : anti-fans, non-fans, and the hurts of history / Future of fandom / Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington -- Cornel Sandvoss -- Matt Hills -- Christine Scodari -- Rebecca Tushnet -- Jonathan Gray -- Alan McKee -- Roberta Pearson -- John Tulloch -- Brian Longhurst, Gaynor Bagnall, and Mike Savage -- Nick Couldry -- Will Brooker -- Lawrence B. McBride and S. Elizabeth Bird -- C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby -- Aswin Punathambekar -- Bertha Chin -- Anne Ciecko and Hunju Lee -- Daniel Cavicchi -- Victoria K. Gosling -- Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart -- Garry Crawford and Jason Rutter -- Derek Johnson -- Melissa A. Click -- Vivi Theodoropoulou -- Jeffrey Sconce -- Diane F. Alters -- Henry Jenkins. Introduction, Afterword,