num_pages: 260
description: Fan Culture: Theory/Practice brings together the most current scholarship on fan studies in a way that makes it accessible and usable for both students and teachers. The essays in this collection explore the relative influence of academic and fan perspectives in the current group of scholar-fans and the ethical dilemmas that sometimes emerge from this interplay of identities the impact of the increasingly reciprocal relationship between textual producers and consumers and gender differences in fannish meaning-making and interaction. Fan Studies addresses these current issues through some of the most popular fannish texts including Doctor Who Torchwood Star Wars Star Trek Supernatural Smallville and Twilight.
language: English
title: Fan Culture: Theory/Practice
publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing