The Adoring Audience

Fan Culture and Popular Media
Herausgeber: Lewis, Lisa A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What distinguishes fans from general audiences? Who is most likely to become a fan? What lies behind the stigma of fandom? This fascinating collection of essays is the first scholarly work to explore the complex relationship between fans, stars and the media industry. The contributors (a fan writer, a team of popular journalists as well as eminent academics and researchers) argue that fandom is a coherent and important subject for critical inquiry. The book breaks traditional stereotypes of fandom and reveals how fans actively influence and produce popular culture. Key Features: The book covers all the social aspects of fandom: sexual preference; class; age; gender; generation and ethnicity. It focuses on the hysterical female response to the Beatles, female fantasies of Elvis and 'groupies'. The contributors examines fan letters, music production and the extent to which the television industry regards fans as valuable to their enterprise.

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With stories of hysterical teenagers and obsessive fans killing for their heroes, fans and fandom get a bad press. The Adoring Audience looks deeper into fan culture, particularly as it relates to identity, sexuality and textual production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415078207
• ISBN-10: 0415078202
• Artikelnr.: 22108592

Autorenporträt

The editor: Lisa A. Lewis is a commercial TV producer in Tucson, Arizona, and author of Gender Politics and MTV: Voicing the Difference.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I PART I Defining Fandom
Chapter 1 Fandom as Pathology: The Consequences of Characterization, JoliJenson
Chapter 2 The Cultural Economy of Fandom, JohnFiske
Chapter 3 Is there a Fan in the House?: The Affective Sensibility of Fandom, LawrenceGrossberg
Part II Part II Fandom and Gender
Chapter 4 Essays from Bitch: The Women's Rock Newsletter with Bite, CherylCline
Chapter 5 Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun, BarbaraEhrenreich, ElizabethHess, GloriaJacobs
Chapter 6 'I'll Be Here With You': Fans, Fantasy and the Figure of Elvis, StephenHinerman
Chapter 7 'Something More Than Love': Fan Stories on Film, Lisa A.Lewis
Part III PART III Fans and Industry
Chapter 8 Fans as Tastemakers: Viewers for Quality Television, SueBrower
Chapter 9 Television Executives Speak about Fan Letters to the Networks, ROBERTSABAL
Part IV PART IV Production by Fans
Chapter 10 A Glimpse of the Fan Factory, Fred, JudyVermorel
Chapter 11 'Strangers No More, We Sing': Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction Fan Community, HenryJenkins
INDEX