Volume 5, 2004

Feb 3, 2004 | Contents Page Only, fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 05

CONTENTS 1. The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context – Sheenagh Pugh 2.‘You That Way, We This Way’: Spectatorship and Song in Kenneth Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost – Felicia Chan & Yong Li Lan 3.Under the...

The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context – Sheenagh Pugh

Feb 3, 2004 | Volume 05

For most people, John F. Kennedy Jr was a character in a play, a character in a story, just the way Sherlock Holmes was. When he’s lost, then people react very emotionally. Constantly rehearsing the details of somebody’s life and death shows that people...

‘You That Way, We This Way’: Spectatorship and Song in Kenneth Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost – Felicia Chan & Yong Li Lan

Feb 3, 2004 | Film, Older Media, Other, Print Media, Volume 05

In our teaching of Shakespearean film adaptation to undergraduates, one of the issues that frequently arises in class discussions is the question of how the visuality of the cinematic medium is constructed in tension against the verbal nature of Shakespeare’s...

Under the Waterfall: A Fanfiction community’s Analysis of their Self-Representation and Peer Review – Kristi Lee

Feb 3, 2004 | Volume 05

Preface In the fall semester of 2003, my friend and fanfiction scholar, Dr. Amy Sturgis, allowed me to sit in on a class that she was teaching at Belmont University entitled “Fan Participation in Media and Culture.” It was an inter-disciplinary course,...

Collapsing the Extra/Textual:Passions and Intensities of Knowledge in Buffy: the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online Fan Communities – Marianne Cantwell

Feb 3, 2004 | Volume 05

Much of the writing on fan communities within fan studies has focussed on an exploration of the mode and conventions of discourse and interaction within these communities. This discourse involves the articulation of ‘fan knowledge’, the specialised...

‘Help When Times Are Hard’: Bereavement and Star Trek Fan Letters – Lincoln Geraghty

Feb 3, 2004 | Volume 05

“How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn’t you say?” – Kirk to Saavik, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [1982].  Henry Jenkins (1988, 1992) uses Michel de Certeau’s (1984) term “textual poaching” to...