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Author Fathallah, Judith, author.

Title Fanfiction and the author : how fanfic changes popular cultural texts / Judith May Fathallah.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Transmedia
Transmedia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-230) and index.
Summary Through a rigorous quantitative/qualitative discourse analysis - never before undertaken in relation to online fanfiction and its reception - 'Fanfiction and the Author' demonstrates how fanfic relating to Sherlock, Game of Thrones and Supernatural works to change and consolidate the discourses of masculinity, authority, and authorship created through these TV texts. As a result, this book innovatively explores how fanfic - the unauthorized creative (re)writing of media fans - alters the discursive formations of popular culture. This, the first large-scale study of fanfic to employ an approach attentive to the sites, receptions, and fan rejections of fanfic, demonstrates that fanfic often legitimates itself through traditional notions of authorship. However, in its explicit discussion and deconstruction of the author figure, fan culture is also beginning to contest those traditional discourses of authority upon which it has depended, paving the way for new kinds of writing that challenge the authority of media professionals.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From Foucault to Fanfic; Foucault and Language; Fanfiction in the Academy; 2. Methodology; Discourse Analysis; Internet Studies; Sampling and Process; 3. The White Man at the Centre of the World: Masculinity in Sherlock; Introduction; Masculinity in Sherlock; Fandom's Reconstruction of Masculinity in Sherlock; 4. 'I AM YOUR KING': Authority in Game of Thrones; Introduction; Authority in Game of Thrones; Fandom's Reconstruction of Authority in Game of Thrones; 5. 'I'm a God': The Author and the Writing Fan in Supernatural; Introduction.
The Construction of Authorship and Fandom in SupernaturalFandom's Reconstruction of Authorship and Fandom; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Written Texts; Film, Television and Other Media; Index.
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Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Fan fiction.
Fan fiction.
Popular culture.
Popular culture.
Literature and the Internet.
Literature and the Internet.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Fanfiction.
Other Form: Print version: Fathallah, Judith. Fanfiction and the author : how fanfic changes popular cultural texts. Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2017 233 pages Transmedia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 9789089649959
ISBN 9789048529087 (electronic book)
9048529085 (electronic book)
9789089649959 (electronic book)
9089649956 (electronic book)