Women’s Shakespeare Clubs: Fandom in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America [PDF]
In 1929, a member of the Hathaway Shakespeare Club of Philadelphia explained that what drew her and her fellow club members together to discuss and analyze the works of the Bard each week was “the strong bond of fellowship due to our common literary ...
Herrnson, Alana
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"The Walking Dead Family is a real thing, not just a hashtag": Experiencing Fan Tourism and Transmediality in Woodbury, Atlanta [PDF]
, 2019 The 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference took place in Atlanta. Historically important for the Civil Rights movement, the city is home to the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jones, Bethan
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An empirical take on the dubbing vs. subtitling debate:an eye movement study [PDF]
, 2016 The empirical study of the processing of dubbed and subtitled audiovisual content still lacks attention in academic circles and the discussion commonly draws on anecdotal and speculative assumptions.
Bottiroli, Sara +2 more
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Conjunction of the spheres. The struggle for hegemony in the English language online reception of Netflix adaption: The Witcher. [PDF]
This essay uses the concepts of convergence culture, transmedia and hegemony, to understand the struggles within the English language reception to Netflix Tv production “The Witcher.” In order to help the reader, the essay presents the background to the ...
R. Kern, Sarah
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SEXUAL POACHERS: AN ANALYSIS OF WHERE FANDOM, SEX EDUCATION, AND MARGINALIZED SEXUALITIES COLLIDE [PDF]
Fanfiction community practices that build new universes, plotlines, and relationships with their beloved media properties grant fans a unique relationship with authority, meaning-creation, and resistance. As poachers, they are notably adept at filling in
0009-0001-0051-0006, Kiefer, Kirtney
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This Cosplayer Has Claws: The Disruption and Replication of Gendered Norms in Cosplay Communities [PDF]
‘Cosplay’ is the abbreviation of ‘costume’ and ‘play.’ The practice of cosplay is both an artistic medium of craft and performance and a lively subcultural activity.
Skentelbery, Daniel
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The lamentable status of (queer) children in fandom: On being a fannish pariah [PDF]
, 2021 This autoethnographic paper considers the place of (queer) children in fandom, focusing on fan fiction–centered fan communities. It explores, in particular, the ways in which these communities have been defined and policed by various actors, the fraught ...
Duggan, Jennifer
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Fandom and beyond: online community, culture and Kevin Smith fandom [PDF]
, 2013 Fan studies literature has frequently been pervaded by the prevailing assumptions of what constitutes “fans” and their associated activities: fan art or fantext, cosplay, conjecture, activism – the things that fans supposedly do by definition –are those ...
Phillips, Tom
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Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance [PDF]
[eng] In this interview, writer and academic Hsu-Ming Teo analyses the Misconceptions made by feminist critics in their approach to romantic fiction. An outstanding representative of the third wave of romance criticism, Teo highlights the pitfalls and ...
Fresno Calleja, Paloma y Aurora García Fernández
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Sneakily Feminist: A Gilmore Girls Analysis [PDF]
, 2018 According to Symphony Advance Media, the 2016 reboot, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, pulled in an average of five million viewers among the 18-49-year-old age demographic in its first three days on Netflix (\u27Gilmore Girls\u27 Early Ratings).
Pick, Katelen
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