TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stein,Louisa Ellen
TI  - Millennial fandom: television audiences in the transmedia age 
SN  - 9781609383558
AV  - PN 1992.55 .S74 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Television viewers
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Fans (Persons)
KW  - Generation Y
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-203) and index; Introduction -- Millennial hope. Glee and the hopeful collective -- Destabilizing the millennial collective -- Niche meets mainstream: from fandom to gleekdom -- Millennial noir. Mapping and marketing millennial noir -- The attack of the filles fatales -- Millennial noir: an invitation to transgress -- Millennial transformation. Misha Collins and the power of decentered authorship -- Collective authorship and the culture of feels -- Conclusion: calling all fandoms
N2  - "In an ambitious study encompassing a wide range of media texts, including popular television series like 'Kyle XY, ' 'Glee.' 'Gossip Girl, ' 'Veronica Mars, ' and 'Pretty Little Liars, ' and online works like 'The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, ' as well as fan texts from blog posts and tweets to remix videos, YouTube posts, and image-sharing streams, author Louisa Ellen Stein traces the circulation of the contradictory tropes of millennial hope and millennial noir. Looking at what millennials do with digital technology demonstrates the molding impact of commercial representations and at the same time reveals how millennials are undermining, negotiating, and changing those narratives"--Page 4 of cover
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