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As more and more fans rush online to share their thoughts on their favorite shows or video games, they might feel like the process of providing feedback is empowering. However, as fan studies scholar Mel Stanfill argues, these industry invitations for fan participation indicate not greater fan power but rather greater fan usefulness. Stanfill's argument, controversial to some in the field, compares the "domestication of fandom" to the domestication of livestock, contending that, just as livestock are bred bigger and more docile as they are domesticated, so, too, are fans as the entertainment industry seeks to cultivate a fan base that is both more useful and more controllable.
By bringing industry studies and fan studies into the conversation, Stanfill looks closely at just who exactly the industry considers "proper fans" in terms of race, gender, age, and sexuality, and interrogates how digital media have influenced consumption, ultimately finding that the invitation to participate is really an incitement to consume in circumscribed, industry-useful ways.
By bringing industry studies and fan studies into the conversation, Stanfill looks closely at just who exactly the industry considers "proper fans" in terms of race, gender, age, and sexuality, and interrogates how digital media have influenced consumption, ultimately finding that the invitation to participate is really an incitement to consume in circumscribed, industry-useful ways.
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INDEX
Abercrombie, Nick, 80
Adelson, Andrea, 154
adulthood, 43, 56–60, 183
advertising, 134–36, 138
age: and adulthood, 43, 56–60, 183; and normativity, 43–46
Ahmed, Sara, 53, 72; on normativity, 28, 74–75, 76; on spatial orientation, 70, 179
Ain’t It Cool News, 69
Anderson, Chris, 130
Andrejevic, Mark, 111–12, 137, 139, 170, 176, 206n11; on labor exploitation, 132, 173
Anelli, Melissa, 143
Any Given Sunday, 194–95
Apatow, Judd, 52, 58
Arrested Development, 135
Arvidsson, Adam, 83, 136, 151, 152
Asquith, Kyle, 83
Associated Press (AP), 14, 135; on Comic-Con, 33, 39, 144, 147, 148, 154
Atlas.ti, 15, 16
attendance, 85–86, 208–9n2
audience commodity, 134–37
authorship, 109–10
backlash, 41, 54, 70, 164, 179; and fandom’s future, 184–89; and Gamergate, 21, 34, 189, 206n1; and Twilight, 39–40
Baird Stribling, Eleanor, 136
Banks, John, 167, 181
Barbee, Carol, 191
Bardo, Robert, 22
Burrows, Roger, 96
Barta, Kristen, 181
Battlestar Galactica (BSG), 13, 36, 92, 101, 118, 145
Baudrillard, Jean, 83
Beeman, Greg, 57
Beer, David, 96
Belk, Russell, 84–85
Beller, Jonathan, 134
The Benchwarmers, 58, 65, 193–94
Benkler, Yochai, 108, 112, 113, 124, 130
Benson, Shawna, 3
Berman, Gail, 135
The Big Bang Theory, 29, 50–51, 62–63, 73
Big Brother, 93
big data, 11, 16
Big Fan, 51, 55, 65, 67, 149, 153; failed sexuality theme in, 63–64, 69–...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One: Fandom’s Normativity: Assuming and Recruiting the Socially Dominant Fan Subject
- Two: The Fandom Menace Straightens Up and Flies White: Failed Normativity to Redemption
- Three: Consumption and the Management of Desire
- Four: The Long Arm of (Beliefs about) the Law
- Five: Fandom and/as Labor
- Six: Enclosing Fandom: Labors of Love, Exploitation, and Consent
- Conclusion: Two Futures of Fandom
- Appendix: Film and TV Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index