Fandom : identities and communities in a mediated world - Gray, Jonathan (Jonathan Alan); Sandvoss, Cornel; Harrington, C. Lee, 1964- (New York : New York University Press, 2007)
Introduction, Why study fans? / Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington -- Death of the reader? : literary theory and the study of texts in popular culture / Cornel Sandvoss -- Media academics as media audiences : aesthetic judgments in media and cultural studies / Matt Hills -- Yoko in cyberspace with Beatles fans : gender and the re-creation of popular mythology / Christine Scodari -- Copyright law, fan practices, and the rights of the author / Rebecca Tushnet -- News : you gotta love it / Jonathan Gray -- Fans of cultural theory / Alan McKee -- Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians / Roberta Pearson -- Fans of Chekhov : re-approaching "high culture" / John Tulloch -- Place, elective belonging, and the diffused audience / Brian Longhurst, Gaynor Bagnall, and Mike Savage -- On the set of The Sopranos : "inside" a fan's construction of nearness / Nick Couldry -- Sort of homecoming : fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage / Will Brooker -- From smart fan to backyard wrestler : performance, context, and aesthetic violence / Lawrence B. McBride and S. Elizabeth Bird -- Global fandom/global fan studies / C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby -- Between rowdies and rasikas : rethinking fan activity in Indian film culture / Aswin Punathambekar -- Belong kung-fu and violence : locating East Asian cinema fandom / Bertha Chin -- Han Suk-kyu and the gendered cultural economy of stardom and fandom / Anne Ciecko and Hunju Lee -- Loving music : listeners, entertainments, and the origins of music fandom in nineteenth-century America / Daniel Cavicchi -- Girls allowed? : the marginalization of female sports fans / Victoria K. Gosling -- Customer relationship management : automating fandom in music communities / Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart -- Playing the game : performance in digital game audiences / Garry Crawford and Jason Rutter -- Fan-tagonism : factions, institutions, and constitutive hegemonies of fandom / Derek Johnson -- Untidy : fan response to the soiling of Martha Stewart's spotless image / Melissa A. Click -- Anti-fan within the fan : awe and envy in sport fandom / Vivi Theodoropoulou -- Vacancy at the Paris Hilton / Jeffrey Sconce -- Other side of fandom : anti-fans, non-fans, and the hurts of history / Diane F. Alters -- Afterword, Future of fandom / Henry Jenkins.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-391) and index.
Keywords: Fans (Persons); Subculture; Popular culture -- Psychological aspects; Fans; Subculture; Culture populaire -- Aspect psychologique; Subcultuur; Fans; Psychologische aspecten; Popkultur -- Fan; Fan -- 2; x; Fan -- Medien; Medien -- Fan; Fan -- Popkultur; Fan -- Soziologie -- Aufsatzsammlung; Fan; Massenkultur; Fans (Persons); Subculture; Popular culture -- Psychological aspects