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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808622803321

Titolo

The Adoring audience : fan culture and popular media / / edited by Lisa A. Lewis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1992

ISBN

1-134-89918-1

1-134-89919-X

1-280-32622-0

0-203-18153-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LewisLisa A

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Fans (Persons) - United States - Psychology

Television viewers - United States - Psychology

Groupies - United States - Psychology

Popular culture - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Cover""; ""Title""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Fandom as Pathology: The Consequences of Characterization JOLI JENSON""; ""The Cultural Economy of Fandom JOHN FISKE""; ""Is There a Fan in the House?: The Affective Sensibility of Fandom LAWRENCE GROSSBERG""; ""Essays from Bitch: The Women's Rock Newsletter with Bite CHERYL CLINE""; ""Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun BARBARA EHRENREICH, ELIZABETH HESS, GLORIA JACOBS""; ""'I'll Be Here With You': Fans, Fantasy and the Figure of Elvis STEPHEN HINERMAN""

""'Something More Than Love': Fan Stories on Film LISA A. LEWIS""""Fans as Tastemakers: Viewers for Quality Television SUE BROWER""; ""Television Executives Speak about Fan Letters to the Networks ROBERT SABAL""; ""A Glimpse of the Fan Factory FRED AND JUDY VERMOREL""; ""'Strangers No More, We Sing': Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction Fan Community HENRY JENKINS""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an



informa company.