The bankrupt values and lack of imagination filkers recognize in media producers and literary hacks get mapped onto the larger social order through an evocation of a long-standing distinction between fan culture and the mundane world. This distinction is partially
Transtextuality and transtextuality in relation to fanfiction
Transtextuality, to understand it, is a relevant concept when it comes to fanfiction. We can talk a lot about if fanfiction’s relationship to canon text is transtextual, in what way and why, but it’s worth to look at transtextual relationship
Mainstream ideologies and transformative works
In fact, much of the interests of fans and their texts for cultural studies lie precisely in the ways the ambiguities of popularly produced meanings mirror fault lines within the dominant ideology, as popular readers attempt to build their culture
RPF and the student activists of the Umbrella Revolution
Alexter is the fan name for the fictional pairing of two actual Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution student leaders, Alex Chow Yong-kang, 24, and Lester Shum, 21, a relationship that has an ardent following on popular social media sites like Twitter,
Vulnerability and emotional hurt in h/c fanfiction
Hurt/comfort fanfiction can build vulnerability and the pain inflicted on the body might stand in place for abstract hurts. This creates the tension, in this case, the hurt part of the story structure. In identifying the release or comfort part,
The multiple influences in Chinese speaking online BL-fandom
The tropes, jargon and conventions of Western slash fandom have also been imported via the Internet and begun to merge with those of the Japan-originated BL fandom in the Chinese-speaking cyberspace. Lavin, Maud; Yang, Ling; Zhao, Jing Jamie 2017. Boy’s
Time travel and fan fiction
For this FandomFirstFriday, let’s talk about time travel and how it might – if – it relates to fannishness. I was actually surprised to find literature on this relationship so I definitely have learned something new thanks to this month’s
The queerness of fandom spaces
Thus, we see fandom itself as queer in essence, as it has positioned itself as a „heterotopia” – a social and communal space that has been in constant exchange and contestation with mainstream society and cultures. Lavin, Maud; Yang, Ling;
Queer fandom and queer movements in China
Fandom as a subculture is usually have a close relationship with queer subcultures. We can see this relationship in Chinese fandoms, too. Reading (the main character in a television adaptation) as a gay man, thus, could result in either criticism
The concept of “quality” fan communities
It is assumed that fans of poorer works will automatically be low-quality fans (…) but in 3n5b’s case, the belief is reversed—the quality of the community dictates the quality of the fandom. As a female-oriented community within the male-dominated field