Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-328) and index.
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Get a Life!": Fans, Poachers, Nomads; 2 How Texts become Real; 3 Fan Critics; 4 "It's Not a Fairy Tale Anymore": Gender, Genre, Beauty and the Beast; 5 Scribbling in the Margins: Fan Readers/Fan Writers; 6 "Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk": Slash and the Fan-Writing Community; 7 "Layers of Meaning": Fan Music Video and the Poetics of Poaching; 8 "Strangers No More, We Sing": Filk Music, Folk Culture, and the Fan Community; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; Sources; Index.
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An ethnographic study of communities of media fans, their interpretative strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices. Jenkins focuses on fans of popular TV programmes, including Star Trek and The Professionals.
Textual poachers.
Fans (Persons)-- Psychology.
Popular culture.
Television viewers-- Psychology.
Culture populaire.
Fans-- Psychologie.
Téléspectateurs-- Psychologie.
Fans (Persons)-- Psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.