It Happens at Comic-Con
Subtitle: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780786476947
Subjects: Collectors and collecting; Comic books, strips, etc., marketing; Popular culture, united states
Description: "This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con international, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 150,000 each summer"--