Today’s Go-To Piece of Criticism comes from Suzanne Scott, and it’s a wonderful quote from a book that is not cited enough, I think, in fan studies, despite being an absolutely critical underpinning of the field. Girls and Subcultures by
Your Go-To Piece of Criticism: Matt Hills, Part 3
Today’s post is the last of three go-to pieces of criticism suggested by Matt Hills: his first was for fan studies generally; his second, for Doctor Who, and today we get his last. –FC ~~~ Lastly, if I had to
Your Go-To Piece of Criticism: Matt Hills, Part 2
As I noted in my last post, the wide-ranging mind of Matt Hills could not be constrained to a single quote. Last week, he gave us a quote for fan studies; this week, he gives us his go-to piece of
Your Go-To Piece of Criticism: Matt Hills, Part 1
Matt Hills is a fan studies and media scholar of really wide breadth, expertise, and versatility, author of the classic fan studies text Fan Cultures (2002) as well as a number of subsequent monographs: How To Do Things With Cultural
Is the anime kids to wuxia fans pipeline happening in the same comics store?
In a recent study, Hungarian Hally fans also showed a connection to Cool Japan and C-ent. “(…) there was a significant correlation between being a fan of K-culture and being a fan of Japanese or Chinese cultural content. (…) This
Your Go-To Piece of Criticism: Paul Booth
Today we’ll be kicking off a new, ongoing series – in between regularly scheduled posts by the Fanhackers team, we will offer guest posts by a number of prominent fan studies scholars. We are inviting them to tell us about
Some Great Resources for Aca-Fannish Work–Part IV: Moving Image Scholarship
A lot of the sites that post multimedia scholarship, videographic criticism, or scholarship pertaining to the moving image (TV/film/video etc) are also broadly interested in fandom and fanworks, primarily as a form of media criticism. The below sites are worth
Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part III: Archival Resources
Fanlore https://fanlore.org/wiki/Main_PageFanlore is a multi-authored site for, about and by fans and fan communities that create and consume fanworks. Sample page:Fanlore, “Femslash February”: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Femslash_February The Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection at Texas A&Mhttps://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/collections/32fd52ea-ba8e-415c-bc04-b0d8cb48a0d5/searchThe Sandy Hereld Collection consists of thousands
My love is a work song
Fandom is fandom because of fans’ activities and participation. The fandom object can be any canon, we could argue then. Descriptions of typical canons still emerge. Sometimes they originate from what is already the result of fannish beheaviour. Indeed, Pearson
Some Great Resources for Acafannish Work – Part II: Book Series
Last post, I looked at academic journals that published scholarship in fan studies; today, we’ll take a tour of some fandom-specific book series at specific presses. Fandom & Culture Series, U Iowa – https://uipress.uiowa.edu/series/fandom-cultureFandom & Culture seeks dynamic books that challenge