Theoretical perspectives on fan scholarship in the franchise era / Sophie Charlotte Goor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goor, Sophie Charlotte, author.

Series:

Transmedia Series

Transmedia Series ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Study and teaching.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Theoretical Perspectives on Fan Scholarship in the Franchise Era".

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

Why Study Fan Scholarship?

What I Am Talking about When I Am Talking About "Fandom"

What to Expect from This Book

What Not to Expect from This Book

1. Conceptualising Fandom: Community and Resistance

Fandom and the Imaginary Community

Categorisation and Exclusion

Structuring the Good Fan

Fan Status as the Golden Standard

2. Theorising Fandom: From Capital to Disposition

The Limitations of Capital

Disposition and the Function of Practice

Unpacking the Space of Practice

Panoptic Sorting and Dispositional Regulation

3. Fan Scholarship and the Fannish Disposition: The Case of the BBC's Sherlock

Sorting Different Strands of Studies

Sherlock as a Symbol of Societal Values

Discursive Reproductions of Established Value Systems

4. The Good Fan and the Safe Space

Filtering Mechanics and Convenient Sorting Practice

Filtering and the Figure of the Audience

Safe Spaces and Contamination

Being Sorted and the Issue of Reflexivity

5. Fan Scholarship and Neoliberal Realism: The Case of the MCU

Structuring Legitimacy through Unity and Fidelity

Discursive Constructions of Success and Destiny

Comic Books as a Symbol of Societal Value

6. Reflexivity and Fannish Disposition

Managing Disappointment

The Scholarly Desire for Isolation and the Claim to Community

Against a Binary Structuration of the Reflexivity Imperative

Fandom Is Great: The Fannish Disposition as a Method

Conclusion

From Imaginary Community to Fannish Disposition

Theorising Fan Scholarship

Embracing Dispositional Insecurity

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-04-077480-6

1-003-70821-8

1-04-078436-4

90-485-5471-3

9781003708216

OCLC:

1443548957