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Fan cultures /

Fans are one of the most widely-studied groups of media consumers. Often knowing more about a character or TV series than the star or programme-makers themselves, and ready to make surprising readings of plot lines and characters, they have been viewed as the ultimate active audience. Fan Cultures i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hills, Matt, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Colección:Sussex studies in culture and communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction : Who's who? Academics, fans, scholar-fans and fan-scholars
  • Part I: Approaching fan cultures. Fan cultures between consumerism and 'resistance' ; Fan cultures between community and hierarchy ; Fan cultures between 'knowledge' and 'justification' ; Fan cultures between 'fantasy' and 'reality'
  • Part II: Theorising cult media. Fandom between cult and culture ; Media cults : between the 'textual' and the 'extratextual' ; Cult geographies : between the 'textual' and the 'spacial' ; Cult bodies : between the 'self' and the 'other'
  • Conclusion : New media, new fandoms, new theoretical approaches?