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Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age, Booth, Paul, Very
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- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- ISBN
- 9781609383190
- Subject Area
- Computers, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Playing Fans : Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Media Studies, Popular Culture, Digital Media / General
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609383192
ISBN-13
9781609383190
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204175285
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Publication Name
Playing Fans : Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Media Studies, Popular Culture, Digital Media / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-034807
Reviews
" Playing Fans offers close analysis of several intriguing case studies that demonstrate how fans and producers meet in complex and conflict-ridden ways.... Booth's focus on spaces and productions where professional and amateur creation meet and overlap makes an especially important intervention."--Alexis Lothian, University of Maryland, College Park, Playing Fans offers close analysis of several intriguing case studies that demonstrate how fans and producers meet in complex and conflict-ridden ways…. Booth's focus on spaces and productions where professional and amateur creation meet and overlap makes an especially important intervention."—Alexis Lothian, University of Maryland, College Park, " Playing Fans is a thoughtful and important book which will provoke debate and which will, crucially, move analysis on in relation to 'transformative' fandom."--Matt Hills, Aberystwyth University, Playing Fans is a thoughtful and important book which will provoke debate and which will, crucially, move analysis on in relation to ‘transformative' fandom."—Matt Hills, Aberystwyth University
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
302.23/1
Synopsis
In Playing Fans , Paul Booth argues that the more attention entertainment businesses pay to fans, the more mainstream fans have become popularized. But such mainstreaming ignores important creative fan work and tries to channel fandom into activities lucrative for the companies. Offering a new approach to the longstanding debate about the balance between manipulation and subversion in popular culture, the author argues that we can understand the current moment best through the concepts of pastiche and parody. This sophisticated alternative to conceiving of fans as either dupes of the media industry or rebels against it takes the discussion of "transformative" and "affirmative" fandom in a productive new direction. With nuanced analyses of the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff, the representations of fans in TV shows like Community and films like Fanboys , SuperWhoLock fans' use of gifs, and the similarities in discussions of slash fandom and pornographic parody films, this book reveals how fans borrow media techniques and media industries mimic fan activities. Just as the entertainment industry needs fans to succeed, so too do fans need--and desire--the media, and they represent their love through gif fics, crowdfunding, and digital cosplay. Everyone who wants to understand how consumers are making themselves at home in the brave new world being built by the contemporary media should read this book., Fans are everywhere: from Fifty Shades of Grey to Veronica Mars, from Comic-Con to sitcom, from niche to Geek Chic, fans are becoming the most visible and important audience of the twenty-first century. For years the media industries ignored fans and fan activities, but now they're paying attention and a lot of money to develop a whole new wave of products intended to harness the power of fandom. What impact do such corporate media efforts have on fan practice and fan identities? And are the media industries actually responding to fans as fans want them to? In Playing Fans , Paul Booth argues that the more attention entertainment businesses pay to fans, the more mainstream fans have become popularized. But such mainstreaming ignores important creative fan work and tries to channel fandom into activities lucrative for the companies. Offering a new approach to the longstanding debate about the balance between manipulation and subversion in popular culture, the author argues that we can understand the current moment best through the concepts of pastiche and parody. This sophisticated alternative to conceiving of fans as either dupes of the media industry or rebels against it takes the discussion of "transformative" and "affirmative" fandom in a productive new direction. With nuanced analyses of the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff, the representations of fans in TV shows like Community and films like Fanboys , SuperWhoLock fans' use of gifs, and the similarities in discussions of slash fandom and pornographic parody films, this book reveals how fans borrow media techniques and media industries mimic fan activities. Just as the entertainment industry needs fans to succeed, so too do fans need--and desire--the media, and they represent their love through gif fics, crowdfunding, and digital cosplay. Everyone who wants to understand how consumers are making themselves at home in the brave new world being built by the contemporary media should read this book.
LC Classification Number
HM851.B676 2015
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