TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hills,Matthew
TI  - Fan Cultures
T2  - Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication Ser
SN  - 9780203361337
AV  - 2001051092 
U1  - 306.1 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- FAN CULTURES -- Copyright -- Content -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction: Who's Who? Academics, fans, scholar-fans and fan-scholars -- Part I Approaches Fan Cultures -- 1 Fan cultures between consumerism and 'resistance' -- 2 Fan cultures between community and hierarchy -- 3 Fan cultures between 'knowledge' and 'justification' -- 4 Fan cultures between 'fantasy' and 'reality' -- Part II Theorising Cult Media -- 5 Fandom between cult and culture -- 6 Media cults: between the 'textual' and the 'extratextual' -- 7 Cult geographies: between the 'textual' and the 'spatial' -- 8 Cult bodies: between the 'self' and the 'other' -- Conclusion: new media, new fandoms, new theoretical approaches? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from Elvis impersonators to X-Philes and Trekkers, Hills discusses a range of approaches to fandom, from the Frankfurt School to psychoanalytic readings, and asks whether the development of new media creates the possibility of new forms of fandom. Fan Cultures also explores the notion of "fan cults" or followings, considering how media fans perform the distinctions of 'cult' status
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