The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age

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==Works Chosen==
===The Communications Officer’s Tale===
Rheanna, Lunch and Other Obscenities - Star Trek
===The FBI Agent’s Tale===
Pares, The Sad Ballad of Mary Sue’s Blues
===The Slayer’s Tale===
Jennet Smith, next
===The Super Man’s Tale===
Koi, Three Fairy Tales of Smallville
===The Dwarf’s Tale===
Brancher, They Say of the Elves
===The Pop Star’s Tale===
Kaneko, The Vacation
===The Spymaster’s Tale===
astolat, Queen of Spades
===The Wizard’s Tales===
Yahtzee, Never Is a Promise
Suitesamba, Scars
busaikko, Once upon a Time
===The Companions’ Tale===
kaydee falls, The Pond Continuum
===The Detective’s Tale===
Speranza, Subliminal
===The Demon Hunter’s Tales===
Mollyamory, Wolf Man’s Party
Glockgal, Supernatural, aka The Boys in Arizona
Supernatural: Fanservice Sequel
===The Billionaire Superhero’s Tale===
AlchemyAlice, When they finally come to destroy the earth (they’ll have to go through you first)
===The Stormtrooper’s Tale===
LullabyKnell, The Story of Finn
==Further Reading==
=== From book ===
"1992: Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers (Routledge,
1992), Camille Bacon-Smith’s Enterprising Women (University of Pennsyl-
vania Press, 1992), and Constance Penley’s “Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Study of Popular Culture” (in Cultural Studies, ed. Grossberg et al. Routledge, 1992), which she later expanded in her book NASA/Trek (Verso, 1997)
"While there were several important articles on fanfiction in the fol-
lowing years (notably Rebecca Tushnet’s 1997 “Legal Fictions: Copyright,
Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law,” and Sara Gwenllian Jones’s 2002
article “The Sex Lives of Cult Television Characters,” in Screen), as well as
several monographs tracing fanfiction and particular communities of fan-
fiction writers (e.g., Sheenagh Pugh’s The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in
a Literary Context, 2005; Rhiannon Bury’s 2005 Cyberspaces of Their Own:
Female Fandoms Online), a second generation of fanfiction scholars came
of age with the publication of Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse’s Fan
Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet (McFarland, 2006);
this group, which includes Busse and Hellekson, Catherine Driscoll, Abi-
gail DeKosnik, Louisa Stein, Deborah Kaplan, and others, including my-
self, was largely comprised of female scholars who were also active and
self-identified fans. Many of us went on to found or publish in the open-
access journal Transformative Works and Cultures, which is dedicated to the
study of fanworks and fan culture, and which has nurtured a new wave
of scholars, including Alexis Lothian, Anne Kustritz, Bethan Jones, Cath-
erine Tosenberger, Mel Stanfill, Juli Parrish, and others. Fanfiction has also
become a central case study in digital culture and the law; see, for instance,
David Roh’s book Illegal Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
and Aaron Schwabach’s Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and In-
tellectual Property Protection (Ashgate, 2011)."
====Fan Essays====
* Joanna Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, and Joan Winston, authors of the 1975 book Star Trek Lives! with its famous concluding chapter: “Do-It-Yourself Star Trek—the Fan Fiction,” Patricia Frazer Lamb
* Diane Veith, who wrote the 1985 essay “Romantic Myth, Transcendence, and Star Trek Zines” and
* Joanna Russ, whose “Pornography by Women, for Women, with Love”
* The Fan Fiction Studies Reader (Iowa, 2014)"
==References==
Category:2017 Academic Commentary