02980nam 2200409z- 450 991075489560332120240409213217.09781951399368(Paperback)9781951399238(PDF)9781951399245(HTML)9781951399252(ePub)10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120(CKB)5600000000766767(EXLCZ)99560000000076676720240409h20232023 ||| 0engur|n#---m||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKiller Fandom Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer /Judith May FathallahBethlehem, PA :mediastudies.press,2023.©20231 online resource (i-xii+244 pages)9 illustrations, 7 tablesMedia Manifold Series ;vol. 2.2832-62022832-6199Available through mediastudies.press.1-951399-24-2 Introduction --- 1. Fanlike Engagement before Fan Studies: Personators, Collectors, and Groupies --- 2. Textual Poaching to Discursive Formations: Serial Killers and Fannish Creation --- 3. Affect, Bonding, Boundaries: Is There Serial Killer Fan Community? --- 4. Killer Fandom and (Sub)Cultural Capital --- 5. Serial Killer Fandom as Digital Play --- References --- AcknowledgmentsKiller Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us.Media Manifold Series ;vol. 2.2832-62022832-6199Fathallah Judith May1733351mediastudies.press,UkCbTOMBOOK9910754895603321Killer Fandom4149097UNINA