Fandom : identities and communities in a mediated world /

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Digital fandom : new media studies / by Booth, Paul, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : new media studies -- The ARG metaphor -- Digital fandom between work and text -- Intra-textuality and battlestar blogs -- The narrative database and the web commons -- Narractivity and spoilers -- Interreality and the digi-gratis -- Identity roleplay on MySpace -- Conclusion: digital fandom, alternate reality games, and demediation.…”

Science fiction fandom /

The secular religion of fandom : pop culture pilgrim / by Bickerdike, Jennifer Otter

The fandom of David Bowie : everyone says "hi" / by Cinque, Toija, Redmond, Sean, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter One, Introduction: 'We're just the space cadets, and he's the commander -- Chapter Two: The Fandom of David Bowie -- Chapter Three: Stories of Difference and of Awakenings -- Chapter Four: Lazarus Rises: the Migrant Fandom of David Bowie -- Chapter Five: Bowie Contagion -- Chapter Six: Being There/Being Him -- Chapter Seven: Aca-Fans on Tracing Bowie Stardom for Being and Becoming -- Chapter Eight: Bowie Nets and Online Interactions -- Chapter Nine: Ghostly Pilgrimages -- Chapter Ten, Conclusion: Everyone Says "Goodbye".…”

Gay fandom and crossover stardom : James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves / by DeAngelis, Michael, 1957-

Cult media, fandom and textiles : handicrafting as fan art / by Cherry, Brigid, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Cult Media and Handicrafting 1. Fandom, Textiles, Gender -- 2. The Fan Handicrafting Experience -- 3. …”

Cult collectors : nostalgia, fandom and collecting popular culture / by Geraghty, Lincoln, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Contesting comic book guy: stereotypes of the nerd, fan and cult collector in film & television -- Movie magic: collecting, authenticity and the enduring fandom of Hollywood memorabilia -- People. Masculine pursuits?…”

Playing fans : negotiating fandom and media in the digital age / by Booth, Paul, 1981-

The I in team : sports fandom and the reproduction of identity / by Tarver, Erin C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sports fandom and identity -- Who is a "fan"? -- Sports fandom as practice of subjectivization -- Putting the "we" in "we're number one": mascots, team, and community identity -- Hero or mascot? …”

Before fanfiction : recovering the literary history of American media fandom / by Edwards, Alexandra (Writing instructor)

Table of Contents: “…-- Intimacy and transformation in literary fan communities -- Fandom in the magazines -- Fan mail as communal literary practice -- Postlude: Fan history and contemporary fan tourism -- Conclusion: Fandom is literary, fandom is historical.…”

Sportista : female fandom in the United States / by Markovits, Andrei S.

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Rogue archives : digital cultural memory and media fandom / by De Kosnik, Abigail

Table of Contents: “…Female and queer archival cultures : the politics of preserving fan works -- Repertoire fills the archive : race, sexuality, and social justice in fandom -- Print fans vs. net fans : women's cultural memory at the threshold of new media -- The default body and the composed body : performance through new media -- Archontic production : free culture and free software as versioning.…”

Performing Jane : a cultural history of Jane Austen fandom / by Glosson, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…A "sense of kindred" in nineteenth-century transatlantic literary fandom -- Performing virtue : Jane Austen in the press and in American cultural imagination, 1830-1850 -- Three modes of fandom : fanfiction, pilgrimage, and collecting -- "My very happy pastime" : Alberta Burke's Jane Austen collection and scrapbooks -- The scrapbook of Barbara Winn Adams, book collector -- "A ready reference archive" : the research scrapbooks of George Holbert Tucker -- The Jane Austen scrapbook of David Gilson, bibliographer and correspondent -- Pride and polyjuice : the visual culture of internet fandom -- The Lizzie Bennet diaries : adaptation and social media -- Fanfiction and visual pleasure -- Literary pilgrimage and the Jane Austen society of North America -- Representations of literary pilgrimage in the popular imagination -- Coda: Effigies of experience.…”

All our yesterdays; an informal history of science fiction fandom in the forties. by Warner, Harry, 1922-

The art of tifo : identity, representation, and performing fandom in football/soccer / by Kassing, Jeffrey W., Meân, Lindsey J.

Table of Contents: “…History, origins, and evolution of Tifo -- Football, identity, and fandom -- Demonstrating dedication and performing devotion -- Memorializing, commemorating, and community building -- Animating rivalries and antagonizing adversaries -- Choreographing politics and illustrating social movements -- Commodifying and commercializing Tifo -- Tifo and modern sport.…”

The immortal storm; a history of science fiction fandom, by Moskowitz, Sam

Computer games : text, narrative, and play /

Table of Contents: “…Reworking the text: online fandom /…”

Gender and the superhero narrative /

Table of Contents: “…"Yeah, I Think There Is Still Hope" : Youth, Ethnicity, Faith, Feminism, and Fandom in Ms. Marvel /…”

Austentatious : the evolving world of Jane Austen fans / by Luetkenhaus, Holly, 1985-, Weinstein, Zoe, 1990-

“…Fandom & culture.…”