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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451527303321

Autore

Hills Matt <1971-, >

Titolo

Fan cultures / / Matt Hills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-55199-1

1-280-02357-0

0-415-24025-5

0-203-36133-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages)

Collana

Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication

Disciplina

306.1

Soggetti

Fans (Persons) - Psychology

Subculture

Television viewers - Psychology

Celebrities in mass media

Motion picture actors and actresses

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

FAN CULTURES; Copyright; Content; Preface; Acknowledgment; Introduction: Who's Who? Academics, fans, scholar-fans and fan-scholars; Part I Approaches Fan Cultures; 1 Fan cultures between consumerism and 'resistance'; 2 Fan cultures between community and hierarchy; 3 Fan cultures between 'knowledge' and 'justification'; 4 Fan cultures between 'fantasy' and 'reality'; Part II Theorising Cult Media; 5 Fandom between cult and culture; 6 Media cults: between the 'textual' and the 'extratextual'; 7 Cult geographies: between the 'textual' and the 'spatial'

8 Cult bodies: between the 'self' and the 'other'Conclusion: new media, new fandoms, new theoretical approaches?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.