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Fandom while black: Misty Copeland, Black Panther, Tyler Perry and the contours of US black fandoms

International journal of cultural studies, 2019
Using 50 interviews with black people about their fandoms (and anti-fandoms) of Tyler Perry’s media output, the blockbuster film Black Panther and the African American ballerina Misty Copeland, this article illuminates black fandom’s four interlocking ...
Alfred L. Martin
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Fandom

Abstract This chapter investigates the ways in which Cool Christianity and Hillsong have arrived in Brazil via US popular culture and Christian music. It explores how young Brazilians become fans of Hillsong’s worship bands and the megachurch starting in the 1990s. It shows how this fandom expanded to and intertwined with an imaginary of
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Supernatural Fandom: The Fandom Business

2016
This chapter discusses and critiques the corporate ownership of fan conventions through a discussion of Creation Entertainment’s Supernatural convention. It introduces the concept of “fanqueue” culture, defined as fans’ sanctioned consumerism. Tying this to SuperWhoLock, the chapter explores a tension in fandom between fan readings and corporate ...
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Sherlock Fandom: The Fandom Is Afoot

2016
This chapter on Sherlock fandom focuses on the fan convention Sherlocked as a manifestation of economic hierarchies in fan cultures. The Holmesian oeuvre of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sits in an uneasy position between popular and high culture, and this chapter probes this tension through the lens of SuperWhoLock as an example of fan hierarchies.
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Introduction: SuperWhoLock Fandom: Fandoms Crossed

2016
This introduction to Crossing Fandoms describes SuperWhoLock—a fan-created amalgam of the television series Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock—as a symbol of contemporary digital fandom. Fans have created SuperWhoLock from the characters and narratives of the three cult texts.
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Fractured Fandoms

, 2018
Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful creators and participants in a capitalistic system.
CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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Conclusion: SuperWhoLock Fandom: Cross Fandoms

2016
This conclusion to Crossing Fandoms explores the SuperWhoLock crossover as a metaphor for heterogeneous fan cultures. The chapter examines fan antagonism and fan affect. The flattening of affect in the digital age seemingly negates the difference between fan groups, but SuperWhoLock reveals tensions at the heart of fan culture. SuperWhoLock presents an
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Fandom and The Beatles

2021
Abstract Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into “nostalgia act” territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band’s breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance.
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Liquid fandom: neo-tribes and fandom in the context of liquid modernity

Soccer & Society, 2013
This paper is a critique of the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Michel Maffesoli as it has been applied to the study of soccer/football fans. Liquid life is the name that Bauman gives to the experience of life within 'liquid modernity' - a form of modernity in which social frameworks and institutions experience a process of accelerating liquefaction ...
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The Representation of Fandom in SupernaturalThe Representation of Fandom in Supernatural

2019
For over a decade now, Supernatural has been the longest running fantasy TV show on television non-stop. Its cult following has slowly but steadily risen, exploding this small horror show into stardom, with a major fanbase supporting it. My thesis will examine how Supernatural’s fandom is represented in the show, and how the rich dynamic between the ...
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