Millennial fandom : television audiences in the transmedia age / Louisa Ellen Stein.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2015Description: ix, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781609383558
  • 1609383559
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 1992.55 .S74 2015
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-203) and index.

"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.

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.

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