Seeing Fans

Lucy Bennett is a researcher at JOMEC, Cardiff University, UK.Paul Booth is Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at DePaul University, USA.

• Foreword by Orlando JonesIntroductionDocumenting Fans: Shades of Reality1. Mark Duffett, “Beyond Exploitation Cinema: Music Fandom, Disability and Mission to Lars”2. Rebecca Williams, “‘We Live Round Here Too’: Representing Fandom and Local Celebrity in Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets”3. Sam Ford, “‘I Was Stabbed 21 Times by Crazy Fans’: Pro Wrestling and Popular Concerns with Immersive Story Worlds” 4. Interview with Roger Nygard, director of Trekkies (1997) Spotlight on: Crazy about One Direction5. Bethan Jones, “‘I Will Throw You off Your Ship and You Will Drown and Die’: Death Threats, Intra-Fandom Hate and the Performance of Fangirling”6. William Proctor, “A New Breed of Fan?: Regimes of Truth, One Directions Fans and Representations of Enfreakment”7. Daisy Asquith (director of Crazy About One Direction), “Crazy About One Direction: Whose Shame Is It Anyway?” Fictional Fans: Reading Between the Lines8. Interview with Robert Burnett, writer and director of Free Enterprise (1998)9. Lincoln Geraghty, “Fans on Primetime: Representations of Fandom in Mainstream American Network Television, 1986—2014”10. Karen Hellekson, “The Image of the Fan in Stargate SG-1”11. Melissa Click & Nettie Brock, “Marking the Line Between Producers and Fans: Representations of Fannish-ness in and around Doctor Who and Sherlock”12. Ellen Kirkpatrick, “Hero-Fans and Fanboy Auteurs: Reflections and Realities of Superhero Fans”13. Katherine Larsen and Lynn Zubernis, “We See You (Sort of): Representations of Fans on Supernatural”14. Interview with Emily Perkins, actor in SupernaturalSpotlight on: Fan and Transmedia Works 15. Kristina Busse, “Beyond Mary Sue: Fan Representation and the Complex Negotiation of Gendered Identity”16. Louisa Stein, “The Digital Literary Fangirl Network: Representing Fannishness in the Transmedia Web Series” 17. Interview with Luminosity, fan and vidderCultural Perspectives on Fan Representations18. Mel Stanfill, “The Fandom Menace: Representing Failed Heteronormativity, the Redemption Narrative, and Whiteness”19. Ruth A Deller, “Outdoor Queuing, Knicker-Throwing and 100th Birthday Greetings: Newspaper Narratives of Mature Female Fans” 20. Rukmini Pande, “Squee from the Margins: Racial/Cultural/Ethnic Identity in Global Media Fandom”21. Interview with Laurent Malaquais, director of Bronies (2012)Global Perspectives on Fandom22. Darlene Hampton, “Slashy Rotten Pervs: Transcultural Representation of Sherlock Slash Fans and the Politics of Pathologization”23. Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, “The Good Fandom: Depicting Japanese Female Fans in Moonlight Express, Moumantai, and Hong Kong Star Fans”24. Nicolle Lamerichs, “Otaku: Representations of Fandom in Japanese Popular Culture”25. Interview with Jeanie Finlay, director of Sound It Out (2011)ConclusionAfterword. Matt Hills, Participating in Hybrid Media Logics?

At a time when fans—as cosplayers, Comic Con attendees, consumers, practitioners as well as financiers of crowdfunding projects—are permeating the media and public consciousness, this collection arrives at a critical moment to examine how fans are being represented by various stakeholders, from the perspectives of aca-fans, media practitioners and fan producers themselves. This excellent collection will undoubtedly add to the richness and expansion of the field of fan studies.