Popular Media Cultures [electronic resource] : Fans, Audiences and Paratexts /
Geraghty, L.editor.
Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with social media and how convergence culture impacts on the strategies and activities of popular media fans.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Fans and Paratexts; Part I: Writing in the Margins; 1 "We Put the Media in (Anti)social Media": Channel 4's Youth Audiences, Unofficial Archives and the Promotion of Second-Screen Viewing; 2 Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics of Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas; 3 "A Reason to Live": Utopia and Social Change in Star Trek Fan Letters; Part II: Reading between the Lines; 4 Victims and Villains: Psychological Themes, Male Stars and Horror Films in the 1940s
5 "I Want to Do Bad Things with You": The Television Horror Title Sequence6 Cannibal Holocaust: The Paratextual (Re)construction of History; Part III: From Spoiler to Fan Activist; 7 From Angel to Much Ado: Cross-Textual Catharsis, Kinesthetic Empathy and Whedonverse Fandom; 8 Location, Location, Location: Citizen-Fan Journalists' "Set Reporting" and Info-War in the Digital Age; 9 Sherlock Holmes, the De Facto Franchise; 10 "Cultural Acupuncture": Fan Activism and the Harry Potter Alliance; Afterword: Studying Media with and without Paratexts; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with social media and how convergence culture impacts on the strategies and activities of popular media fans.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Social media.
Children's literature.
Communication.
Social sciences.
Industries.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Social Media.
Children's Literature.
Media Studies.
Social Sciences, general.
Industries.