Popular media cultures : fans, audiences and paratexts /
"Popular Media Cultures seeks to explore the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera, and the related cultural practices that add to and expand the narrative worlds with which fans engage. The book discusses how audiences make meaning out of e...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Fans and Paratexts / Lincoln Geraghty
- Part I. Writing in the Margins: 1. "We put the media in (anti)social media": Channel 4's Youth Audiences, Unofficial Archives and the Promotion of Second-Screen Viewing / Michael O'Neill; 2. Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics and Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea / Cornel Sandvoss, Kelly Youngs and Joanne Hobbs; 3. 'A Reason to Live': Utopia and Social Change in Star Trek Fan Letters / Lincoln Geraghty
- Part II. Reading Between the Lines: 4. Victims and Villains: Psychological Themes, Male Stars and Horror Films in the 1940s / Mark Jancovich; 5. 'I Want to Do Bad Things With You': The Television Horror Title Sequence / Stacey Abbott; 6. Cannibal Holocaust: The Paratextual (Re)Construction of History / Simon Hobbs
- Part III. From Spoiler to Fan Activist: 7. From Angel to Much Ado: Cross-Textual Catharsis, Kinesthetic Empathy, and Whedonverse Fandom / Tanya R. Cochran; 8. Location, location, location: Citizen-fan Journalists' 'set reporting' and Info-war in the Digital Age / Matt Hills; 9. Sherlock Holmes, the Defacto Franchise / Roberta Pearson; 10. 'Cultural acupuncture': Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance / Henry Jenkins
- Afterword: Studying Media With and Without Paratexts / Jonathan Gray.