Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from Elvis impersonators to X-Philes and Trekkers, Hills discusses a range of approaches to fandom, from the Frankfurt School to psychoanalytic readings, and asks whether the development of new media creates the possibility of new forms of fandom. Fan Cultures also explores the notion of "fan cults" or followings, considering how media fans perform the distinctions of 'cult' status.
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Matt Hills is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.
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This really is one of the best academic books on fandom, if not the best. Hills has a remarkable ability to read in, through, and around established theory, and yet also has a nice knack of forcing theory to account for grounded realities. Each chapter boldly approaches fandom from the standpoint of an existing binary in fan studies, and as a result, the book shatters through multiple impasses (and sillinesses) in established work to date.Fan studies is such a maligned sub-discipline in a field (that of cultural and media studies) that all too often prefers mea-culpa lashing of the media body, and that prefers disgust with or pity of the fan to any actual attempt to understand him/her. But the strength of a book like this defies critics of the sub-discipline. Indeed, I don't think it's too much to say that fan studies really comes into its own with this book. Hills has opened up ground for future work, through careful reading of past work and a sense of what is tragically missing. As such, I would highly recommend this. If you are looking for empirical work, this is not your book (although Hills reads others' empirical work well), but if you want a macro picture of how all that work fits together, this is it.
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It is not just the imagined subjectivities of the 'fan' and the 'academic' which clash and imply different moral dualisms, i.e. different versions of 'us' (good) and 'then' (bad). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Star Trek, The X-Files, Cult Times, Nowhere Man, The Prisoner, Eddie Cochran, Frankfurt School, Henry Jenkins, Velveteen Rabbit, Film Threat, Elvis Presley, Kurt Lancaster, Marilyn Monroe, The Fugitive, Forbidden Planet, Grouse Mountain, John Fiske, Michel de Certeau, Star Wars, Theodor Adorno New!
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It is not just the imagined subjectivities of the 'fan' and the 'academic' which clash and imply different moral dualisms, i.e. different versions of 'us' (good) and 'then' (bad). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Star Trek, The X-Files, Cult Times, Nowhere Man, The Prisoner, Eddie Cochran, Frankfurt School, Henry Jenkins, Velveteen Rabbit, Film Threat, Elvis Presley, Kurt Lancaster, Marilyn Monroe, The Fugitive, Forbidden Planet, Grouse Mountain, John Fiske, Michel de Certeau, Star Wars, Theodor Adorno New!
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- Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication) by Henry Jenkins on 11 pages
- Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience (Film/Fiction S.) by Deborah Cartmell on 5 pages
- The Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason (Texas Film & Media Studies Series) by J. P. Telotte on 5 pages
- The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media by Roberta E. Pearson on 5 pages
- Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg on 4 pages
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- Fan Cultures (Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication) by Matthew Hills in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide (Popular TV Genres) by John R. Cook on page 20, and Back Matter
- Movie Blockbusters by Julian Stringer in Front Matter, and page 188
- The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World by S. Elizabeth Bird in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World by S. Elizabeth Bird in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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