Volume 6, 2004

Jun 17, 2004 | Comics, Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Television, Volume 06

Editor, Djoymi Baker CONTENTS 1. Fandom and Space: An Introduction [Editorial] – Djoymi Baker 2. Of Mounties and Gay Marriage: Canadian Television, American Fans, and the Virtual Heterotopia – Rhiannon Bury 3. Between Consumerism and Resistance, Outreach...

Fandom and Space: An Introduction [Editorial] – Djoymi Baker

Jun 17, 2004 | Volume 06

Fan practices can forge new narrative spaces within and between the originating texts. In the contemporary era, conglomerate cross-media merchandising may attempt to cover all narrative and media fields. Fandom tests the boundaries of the text in often unsanctioned...

Of Mounties and Gay Marriage: Canadian Television, American Fans, and the Virtual Heterotopia – Rhiannon Bury

Jun 17, 2004 | Volume 06

Rhiannon Bury argues examines the American fans of the Canadian television series, Due South (Paul Haggis, 1994-1998), via Militant RayK Separatists (MRKS), an electronic mailing list. Bury suggests that the MRKS is a heterotopic space, based on idealised notions of...

Between Consumerism and Resistance, Outreach and Exclusion: Online Vampire Subcultures – Dale Hudson

Jun 17, 2004 | Volume 06

Dale Hudson explores online vampire subcultures as sites that articulate US national identity. Hudson argues that although they are ostensibly oppositional, vampire subcultures “are important sites for indoctrination into, and preservation of, national...

Comrade Guy Unites the Happy Workers – Greg Levine

Jun 17, 2004 | Volume 06

Greg Levine, finding himself distracted by celebrity Pepsi billboards displayed in public spaces, suggests an alignment with propaganda posters of the Chinese Communist Party. Although ideologically antithetical, both use public images as role-modeling, to promote...

‘We was cross-dressing ‘afore you were born!’ Or, how sf fans invented virtual community – Helen Merrick

Jun 17, 2004 | Volume 06

Helen Merrick notes that the term ‘virtual’ has become associated almost exclusively with contemporary technologies. However, Merrick suggests that ‘offline’ fan communities in the 1950s were “practicing similar forms of many-to-many...