Fan cultures /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hills, Matt, 1971-
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:	Sussex studies in culture and communication.
Subjects:	Fans (Persons) > Psychology. Subculture. Television viewers > Psychology. Celebrities in mass media. Motion picture actors and actresses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction : Who's who? Academics, fans, scholar-fans and fan-scholars
Part I: Approaching fan cultures. Fan cultures between consumerism and 'resistance' ; Fan cultures between community and hierarchy ; Fan cultures between 'knowledge' and 'justification' ; Fan cultures between 'fantasy' and 'reality'
Part II: Theorising cult media. Fandom between cult and culture ; Media cults : between the 'textual' and the 'extratextual' ; Cult geographies : between the 'textual' and the 'spacial' ; Cult bodies : between the 'self' and the 'other'
Conclusion : New media, new fandoms, new theoretical approaches?