Slashing the slayer: a thematic analysis of homo-erotic Buffy fan fiction
This essay reports the research that I have carried out on Internet slash fiction based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. I became interested in this area when I stumbled across slash fiction on the web myself and found that I enjoyed it.
Barker, Meg
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The (im)possibilities of queer girlhoods: Chinese girls negotiating queerness and filial piety [PDF]
This paper examines the experiences of nine Chinese girls and young women as they explore and negotiate queer subjectivities within the constraints of patriarchal and (hetero)sexual norms surrounding girlhood and young femininity. I focus on filial piety
Xie, Xumeng
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Web Based Semantic Communities – Who, How and Why We Might Want Them in the First Place
This paper describes an investigation undertaken as part of the FicNet Human-Computer Interaction project into the online amateur fiction community. By working with the community to determine current practices and areas of concern we consider how future ...
Lawrence, K. Faith, schraefel, m. c.
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Normalizing the Deviance: The Creation, Politics, and Consumption of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities in Online Fan Communities [PDF]
Communities of fan producers have been creating and consuming works labeled deviant by both laypeople and academics for decades. Fan producers take the popular media they enjoy and rewrite it to fit their needs and desires.
Fielding, Dianna M.
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Supergay: A Queer Analysis of the CW’s Supergirl [PDF]
An analysis of queer representation and allusions in superhero narratives has been a subject for debate in the both the queer and feminist fields. Throughout history, many scholars have focused on the storyline of superheroes who have “come out” as part ...
DeGalan, Anna
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Analysis of Queerness and Race in Black Lightning and DCTV Femslash [PDF]
In this dissertation, I research issues of queer representation and race in the CW network’s DC television (DCTV) shows’ fandom by investigating femslash ships, or the fan pairing of female characters.
Marks, Rachel
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Queer fan practices online: digital fan production as a negotiation of LGBT representation in Pretty Little Liars [PDF]
Fan Studies aims to de-pathologise fans, their communities and their fannish practices (Jenkins 1992). In doing so, Fan Studies privileges fan voices by interrogating their quotidian on- and offline fan practices (Brooker 2002; Hills 2002 ...
Bingham, William
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Queer Subjectivity, Transmedia, and Embodiment in the Carmilla Fandom [PDF]
This study examines the ways in which individuals mediate the institutionalization and embodiment of queer identities in the Carmilla fandom by manipulating transmedia networks.
Skinner, Stephanie
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Narrativas lésbicas creadas por fanáticos de series de televisión. Estudio de caso: Hand Aufs Herz y Glee [PDF]
El presente trabajo de investigación consiste en el análisis de los elementos narrativos que reconfiguran los fanáticos (entendiéndose como fans) de series de televisión.
Escobar Torres, Johanna Francisca
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