The adoring audience

Routledge

2003

x, 245 p.

9780415078214

Contents: Introduction; Part I PART I Defining Fandom; Chapter 1 Fandom as Pathology:TheConsequencesof Characterization, JoliJenson; Chapter 2 The Cultural Economy of Fandom,JohnFiske; Chapter 3 Is there a Fan in the House?: The Affective Sensibility of Fandom, LawrenceGrossberg; Part IIPart II Fandom and Gender; Chapter 4 Essays from Bitch: The Women's Rock Newsletter withBite,CherylCline; Chapter 5 Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun,BarbaraEhrenreich,ElizabethHess, GloriaJacobs; Chapter 6 'I'll Be Here With You': Fans,Fantasy and the Figure of Elvis, StephenHinerman; Chapter 7 'Something MoreThanLove':FanStories on Film, Lisa A.Lewis; Part III PART III Fans and Industry; Chapter 8Fans as Tastemakers: Viewers for Quality Television, SueBrower; Chapter 9TelevisionExecutivesSpeak about Fan Letters to the Networks, ROBERTSABAL; Part IV PART IVProduction by Fans; Chapter 10 A Glimpse of the Fan Factory, Fred, JudyVermorel; Chapter 11'Strangers No More, We Sing': Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction FanCommunity, HenryJenkins; INDEX

What distinguishes fans from general audiences? Who is most likely to become a fan? This fascinating collection of essays explores the relationship between fans and their adored media products. Examining fandom as a distinct form of cultural activity, an eminent list of contributors discuss a range of topics. "Defining Fandom" assesses the economic, cultural, political, and theoretical positioning of fans. "Fandom and Gender" examines the hysterical response to the Beatles, female fantasies of Elvis and "groupies." "Fans and Industry" considers the extent to which the television industry regards fans as valuable to their enterprise. "Production by Fans" looks at fans as producers of popular culture (fan letters to pop stars and music production by science fiction fans.

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