Geraghty Popular Media Cultures

Fans, Audiences and Paratexts
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-35037-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with social media and how convergence culture impacts on the strategies and activities of popular media fans.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geraghty, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Fans and Paratexts; Lincoln Geraghty PART I: WRITING IN THE MARGINS 1. We put the 'media' in (anti)social media': Channel 4's Youth Audiences, Unofficial Archives and the Promotion of Second-Screen Viewing; Michael O'Neill 2. Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics and Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea ; Cornel Sandvoss, Kelly Youngs and Joanne Hobbs 3. 'A Reason to Live': Utopia and Social Change in Star Trek Fan Letters; Lincoln Geraghty PART II: READING BETWEEN THE LINES 4. Victims and Villains: Psychological Themes, Male Stars and Horror Films in the 1940s; Mark Jancovich 5. 'I Want to Do Bad Things With You': The TV Horror Title Sequence; Stacey Abbott 6. Cannibal Holocaust : The Paratextual (Re)Construction of History; Simon Hobbs PART III: FROM SPOILER TO FAN ACTIVIST 7. From Angel to Much Ado : Cross-Textual Catharsis, Kinesthetic Empathy, and Whedonverse Fandom; Tanya R. Cochran 8. Location, location, location: Citizen-fan Journalists' 'set reporting' and Info-war in the Digital Age; Matt Hills 9. Sherlock Holmes, the Defacto Franchise; Roberta Pearson 10. 'Cultural acupuncture': Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance; Henry Jenkins Afterword: Studying Media With and Without Paratexts; Jonathan Gray Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton, UK

Tanya R. Cochran, Union College, USA

Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Matt Hills, Aberystwyth University, UK

Simon Hobbs, University of Portsmouth, UK

Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia, UK

Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California, USA

Michael O'Neill, University of Portsmouth, UK

Roberta Pearson, University of Nottingham, UK

Cornel Sandvoss, University of Huddersfield, UK

Kelly Youngs, University of Surrey, UK

Joanne Hobbs, University of Surrey, UK