Fake Geek Girls : Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry / Suzanne Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Suzanne, 1979- Author.

Series:

Critical cultural communication.

NYU scholarship online.

Critical cultural communication

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2020.

Summary:

'Fake Geek Girls' offers a timely survey of the gendered tensions underpinning the media industry's embrace of fans as tastemakers and promotional partners over the past decade as fan culture has moved from the margins to the mainstream. Through an exploration of the subtle and interconnected ways in which media industries, journalists, and other fans have cultivated an androcentric vision of fan identity and participation, this work surveys the politics of participation within contemporary fan cultures and reasserts the importance of feminism to fan studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Make Fandom Great Again

1. A Fangirl’s Place Is in the Resistance: Feminism and Fan Studies

2. “Get a life, will you people?!”: The Revenge of the Fanboy

3. Interrogating the Fake Geek Girl: The Spreadable Misogyny of Contemporary Fan Culture

4. Terms and Conditions: Co- Opting Fan Labor and Containing Fan Criticism

5. One Fanboy to Rule Them All: Fanboy Auteurs, Fantrepreneurs, and the Politics of Professionalization

6. From Poaching to Pinning: Fashioning Postfeminist Geek Girl(y) Culture

Conclusion: Fan Studies’ OTP: Fandom and Intersectional Feminism

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-2296-5

OCLC:

1089804769