Contents
PART I: Fan Texts: From Aesthetic to Legal Judgments
1 The Death of the Reader?
Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture
2 Media Academics as Media Audiences:
Aesthetic Judgments in Media and Cultural Studies
3 Yoko in Cyberspace with Beatles Fans: Gender
and the Re-Creation of Popular Mythology
4 Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and the Rights of the Author
PART II: Beyond Pop Culture: Fandom from News to High Culture
7 Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians
8 Fans of Chekhov: Re-Approaching “High Culture”
PART III: Spaces of Fandom: From Place to Performance
9 Place, Elective Belonging, and the Diffused Audience
10 On the Set of The Sopranos:
“Inside” a Fan’s Construction of Nearness
11 A Sort of Homecoming:
Fan Viewing and Symbolic Pilgrimage
12 From Smart Fan to Backyard Wrestler:
Performance, Context, and Aesthetic Violence
PART IV: Fan Audiences Worldwide: From the Global to the Local
13 Global Fandom/Global Fan Studies
14 Between Rowdies and Rasikas:
Rethinking Fan Activity in Indian Film Culture
15 Beyond Kung-Fu and Violence:
Locating East Asian Cinema Fandom
16 Han Suk-kyu and the Gendered
Cultural Economy of Stardom and Fandom
PART V: Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures:
From Concert Halls to Console Games
17 Loving Music: Listeners, Entertainments, and the Origins
of Music Fandom in Nineteenth-Century America
18 Girls Allowed? The Marginalization of Female Sports Fans
19 Customer Relationship Management:
Automating Fandom in Music Communities
20 Playing the Game: Performance in Digital Game Audiences
PART VI: Fans and Anti-Fans: From Love to Hate
21 Fan-tagonism: Factions, Institutions, and
Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom
22 Untidy: Fan Response to the Soiling of
Martha Stewart’s Spotless Image
23 The Anti-Fan within the Fan:
Awe and Envy in Sport Fandom
24 A Vacancy at the Paris Hilton
25 The Other Side of Fandom:
Anti-Fans, Non-Fans, and the Hurts of History