Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Study Fans? 1 Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington part i: Fan Texts: From Aesthetic to Legal Judgments 1 The Death of the Reader? Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture 19 Cornel Sandvoss 2 Media Academics as Media Audiences: Aesthetic Judgments in Media and Cultural Studies 33 Matt Hills 3 Yoko in Cyberspace with Beatles Fans: Gender and the Re-Creation of Popular Mythology 48 Christine Scodari 4 Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and the Rights of the Author 60 Rebecca Tushnet part ii: Beyond Pop Culture: Fandom from News to High Culture 5 The News: You Gotta Love It 75 Jonathan Gray 6 The Fans of Cultural Theory 88 Alan McKee 7 Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians 98 Roberta Pearson 8 Fans of Chekhov: Re-Approaching “High Culture” 110 John Tulloch v part iii: Spaces of Fandom: From Place to Performance 9 Place, Elective Belonging, and the Diffused Audience 125 Brian Longhurst, Gaynor Bagnall, and Mike Savage 10 On the Set of The Sopranos: “Inside” a Fan’s Construction of Nearness 139 Nick Couldry 11 A Sort of Homecoming: Fan Viewing and Symbolic Pilgrimage 149 Will Brooker 12 From Smart Fan to Backyard Wrestler: Performance, Context, and Aesthetic Violence 165 Lawrence B. McBride and S. Elizabeth Bird part iv: Fan Audiences Worldwide: From the Global to the Local 13 Global Fandom/Global Fan Studies 179 C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby 14 Between Rowdies and Rasikas: Rethinking Fan Activity in Indian Film Culture 198 Aswin Punathambekar 15 Beyond Kung-Fu and Violence: Locating East Asian Cinema Fandom 210 Bertha Chin 16 Han Suk-kyu and the Gendered Cultural Economy of Stardom and Fandom 220 Anne Ciecko and Hunju Lee part v: Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures: From Concert Halls to Console Games 17 Loving Music: Listeners, Entertainments, and the Origins of Music Fandom in Nineteenth-Century America 235 Daniel Cavicchi 18 Girls Allowed? The Marginalization of Female Sports Fans 250 Victoria K. Gosling vi Contents 19 Customer Relationship Management: Automating Fandom in Music Communities 261 Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart 20 Playing the Game: Performance in Digital Game Audiences 271 Garry Crawford and Jason Rutter part vi: Fans and Anti-Fans: From Love to Hate 21 Fan-tagonism: Factions, Institutions, and Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom 285 Derek Johnson 22 Untidy: Fan Response to the Soiling of Martha Stewart’s Spotless Image 301 Melissa A. Click 23 The Anti-Fan within the Fan: Awe and Envy in Sport Fandom 316 Vivi Theodoropoulou 24 A Vacancy at the Paris Hilton 328 Jeffrey Sconce 25 The Other Side of Fandom: Anti-Fans, Non-Fans, and the Hurts of History 344 Diane F. Alters 26 Afterword: The Future of Fandom 357 Henry Jenkins Bibliography 365 About the Contributors 393 Index 399 Contents vii ...