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Title: Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication) by Henry Jenkins ISBN: 0-415-90572-9 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Still the best account of fan culture and fan use of texts
Comment: This is a gem of a book. Jenkins combines an "insider's" understanding of media fandom with serious, well-grounded scholarship to provide one of the few scholarly works on this subject which is not riddled with unacknowledged biases or factual errors (you know, the sort of misrepresentations of series content which suggest that the scholar didn't think enough of the subject matter or their fan informants to bother to get it right). As someone who was practically raised by classic "Star Trek" re-runs and who continues to find inspiration and healing in many science fiction TV programs -- and who hopes to continue to do scholarly research in this field -- I would hold Jenkins up as a model to other scholars. The major drawback of this volume is that it is now almost ten years old. There have been many wonderful series with growing fan cultures of their own (including the rise of such female heroes as "Xena" and "Buffy") since TEXTUAL POACHERS was written, but Jenkins provides a methodology and a model which can still help to interpret these more recent phenomena. Read this, and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dining at the Television Buffet
Comment: Jenkins starts by dispelling the stereotype of the media fan as teenaged geek in Spock ears, and explores the very real and dynamic interactions between fans and their media. He has a clear understanding of the subject and a good relationship with the people whose culture he describes, as well as a readable and intelligent style of writing. The book is not only interesting but also fun to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent resource for fan fiction authors and fans
Comment: While dated, and slightly insular, this text is an excellent introduction to the sub-culture of fanzines and fan fiction. While many of the current generation of fans seem to believe fan fiction was born online around 1994, they should be surprised and hopefully pleased to discover the rich (off-line) history of the phenomenon, dating all the way back to the pulp magazines of the 1930s.
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Title: Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth (Publication of the American Folklore Society) by Camille Bacon-Smith ISBN: 0812213793 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Reinventing Comics : How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form by Scott Mccloud ISBN: 0060953500 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray ISBN: 0262631873 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media by Lisa A. Lewis ISBN: 0415078210 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons ISBN: 0930289234 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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