Texas A & M University media fanzine collection.
| Format: | Kit |
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| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | This collection consists of fanzines, primarily works of fan fiction, created by fans of various movies and television shows. These shows are often, though not always, science fiction in nature. Scope and Contents: The Media Fanzine Collection is comprised of numerous pre-Internet fan-produced publications that document their involvement in a particular fandom. Fandoms are based around media productions such as movies (i.e. the Star Wars film series) or television shows (i.e. Star Trek in its various iterations). Although traditionally most media fandoms involve productions from the science fiction and fantasy genres, there are numerous exceptions. The majority of the contents in this collection consists of fan fiction. Fan fiction is the name given to literary or artistic productions created by fans about the characters, settings and events of the media universe in which they are interested. A substantial portion of the fanworks in the Media Fanzine Collection is identified as "slash”. "Slash" refers to fanworks that feature same-sex relationships and are sometimes (though not always) sexually explicit. In slash, sexual identity, sexuality and/or romance are often the centers of the story, rather than the conventional adventures featured in more traditional fanworks. A small portion of the collection consists of "het" material. "Het", like slash, refers to fanworks featuring sexual or romantic content, but with opposite-sex relationships. Slash and het items are identified as such on the item folder. If an item is *not* identified as slash or het, it is to be assumed that the item is “gen” (containing no sexual or romantic content. Both slash and het items have been specifically identified because of their importance as highly visible fan fiction subcultures. (s) indicates slash material. (h) indicates het material. Fanzines are organized alphabetically by fandom name, and thereunder by title. The term “Multimedia” refers to anthologies of material from different fandoms. The term “Crossover” refers to stories in which characters from one or more media universes interact with those from another. (For example, a story in which Mal Reynolds' ship Serenity passed through a wormhole and encountered Captain James T. Kirk's U.S.S. Enterprise would be a Firefly/Star Trek crossover.) There are several additional items, including materials from genre conventions, ads and flyers, professional publications that relate to various fandoms, and various items of printed realia. Audio-Visual Materials The collection also contains some non-print materials. There are several DVDs of fanvids in the collection (and the fandoms for those vids are noted in the finding aid). There are also several DVDs that contain recordings of fanfiction podcasts, from a number of different fandoms. On Star Trek: Since 1966 there have been 5 non-animated television iterations of the television show Star Trek. Each one has its own dedicated fandom (although certainly many Trekkers are fans of multiple series), and each one has a generally accepted denotation. Those denotations are used in this collection, as follows: Star Trek [TOS] refers to the original series(1966-1969). Star Trek [TNG] refers to Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994). Star Trek [DS9] refers to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999). Star Trek [VGR] refers to Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001). Star Trek [ENT] refers to Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)." Some materials in this collection belong to the Maps of Imaginary Places Collection. Please see the finding aid for more details Some materials in this collection belong to the Filk Collection. |
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