Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).C. Lee Harrington is Professor of Sociology at Miami University. She is the author (with Denise D. Bielby) of Soap Fans (1995) and Global TV (2008).Cornel Sandvoss is Professor of Media and Journalism and co-founding Director of Centre of Participatory Culture at the University of Huddersfield.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Study Fans? Part I: Fan Texts: From Aesthetic to Legal JudgmentsPart II: Beyond Pop Culture from News to High Culture Part III: Spaces of Fandom: From Place to Performance Part IV: Fan Audiences Worldwide: From the Global to the Local Part V: Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures: From Concert Halls to Console Games Part VI: Fans and Anti-Fans: From Love to HateBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Highly recommended. (Choice) Fandom explores the multidimensional aspects of the fascination, enthrallment, obsession that fans have with their various interests. (Journal of Mass Communication Quarterly) One of the best aspects of the text is the way that the contributors do not merely typecast fans as those interested in modern and popular culture, but also examine fans of mediums typically considered 'high culture.' This makes the book much friendlier to pop-culture fans, whose practices are typically considered lowbrow and fanatical when compared to someone who holds season tickets to the opera or visits an art gallery every weekend. As a fan, it's nice to see that the behavior is not reduced to unnecessary fanaticism and is examined on a more subjective level. (M/C Reviews) Fandom pushes the boundaries of fan studies in bold directions, incorporating high culture fandoms, global fan cultures, fan technologies, and antagonistic anti-fandom, while rethinking the core tenets of fan studies concerning aesthetics, place, intellectual property, and interpretive communitiesall presented with a lively, accessible, and engaging writing style. - Jason Mittell,Middlebury College Thought-provoking. . . . Well-selected and challenging collection. (Screen)

Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).C. Lee Harrington is Professor of Sociology at Miami University. She is the author (with Denise D. Bielby) of Soap Fans (1995) and Global TV (2008).Cornel Sandvoss is Professor of Media and Journalism and co-founding Director of Centre of Participatory Culture at the University of Huddersfield.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Study Fans? Part I: Fan Texts: From Aesthetic to Legal JudgmentsPart II: Beyond Pop Culture from News to High Culture Part III: Spaces of Fandom: From Place to Performance Part IV: Fan Audiences Worldwide: From the Global to the Local Part V: Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures: From Concert Halls to Console Games Part VI: Fans and Anti-Fans: From Love to HateBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Highly recommended. (Choice) Fandom explores the multidimensional aspects of the fascination, enthrallment, obsession that fans have with their various interests. (Journal of Mass Communication Quarterly) One of the best aspects of the text is the way that the contributors do not merely typecast fans as those interested in modern and popular culture, but also examine fans of mediums typically considered 'high culture.' This makes the book much friendlier to pop-culture fans, whose practices are typically considered lowbrow and fanatical when compared to someone who holds season tickets to the opera or visits an art gallery every weekend. As a fan, it's nice to see that the behavior is not reduced to unnecessary fanaticism and is examined on a more subjective level. (M/C Reviews) Fandom pushes the boundaries of fan studies in bold directions, incorporating high culture fandoms, global fan cultures, fan technologies, and antagonistic anti-fandom, while rethinking the core tenets of fan studies concerning aesthetics, place, intellectual property, and interpretive communitiesall presented with a lively, accessible, and engaging writing style. - Jason Mittell,Middlebury College Thought-provoking. . . . Well-selected and challenging collection. (Screen)

Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).C. Lee Harrington is Professor of Sociology at Miami University. She is the author (with Denise D. Bielby) of Soap Fans (1995) and Global TV (2008).Cornel Sandvoss is Professor of Media and Journalism and co-founding Director of Centre of Participatory Culture at the University of Huddersfield.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Study Fans? Part I: Fan Texts: From Aesthetic to Legal JudgmentsPart II: Beyond Pop Culture from News to High Culture Part III: Spaces of Fandom: From Place to Performance Part IV: Fan Audiences Worldwide: From the Global to the Local Part V: Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures: From Concert Halls to Console Games Part VI: Fans and Anti-Fans: From Love to HateBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

Highly recommended. (Choice) Fandom explores the multidimensional aspects of the fascination, enthrallment, obsession that fans have with their various interests. (Journal of Mass Communication Quarterly) One of the best aspects of the text is the way that the contributors do not merely typecast fans as those interested in modern and popular culture, but also examine fans of mediums typically considered 'high culture.' This makes the book much friendlier to pop-culture fans, whose practices are typically considered lowbrow and fanatical when compared to someone who holds season tickets to the opera or visits an art gallery every weekend. As a fan, it's nice to see that the behavior is not reduced to unnecessary fanaticism and is examined on a more subjective level. (M/C Reviews) Fandom pushes the boundaries of fan studies in bold directions, incorporating high culture fandoms, global fan cultures, fan technologies, and antagonistic anti-fandom, while rethinking the core tenets of fan studies concerning aesthetics, place, intellectual property, and interpretive communitiesall presented with a lively, accessible, and engaging writing style. - Jason Mittell,Middlebury College Thought-provoking. . . . Well-selected and challenging collection. (Screen)