The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures

Contents

• Notes on
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction ( Koos Zwaan, Linda Duits and Stijn Reijnders )
• Part I Re-defining the Fan
• 1. Returning to 'Becoming-a-Fan' Stories: Theorising Transformational Objects and the Emergence/Extension of Fandom ( Matt Hills )
• 2. Populating the Universe: Toy Collecting and Adult Lives ( Kristen N. Bryant, Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington )
• 3. Much Ado about Keanu Reeves: The Drama of Ageing in Online Fandom ( Shenja van der Graaf )
• 4. Music for (Something Other than) Pleasure: Anti-fans and the Other Side of Popular Music Appeal ( Liz Giuffre )
• 5. A Severe Case of Disliking Bimbo Heidi, Scumbag Jesse and Bastard Tiger: Analysing Celebrities' Online Anti-fans ( Nathalie Claessens and Hilde Van den Bulck )
• 6. Fandom as Survival in Media Life ( The Janissary Collective )
• 7. From Interpretive Communities to Interpretative Fairs: Ordinary Fandom, Textual Selection and Digital Media ( Cornel Sandvoss and Laura Kearns )
• Part II Fans and Producers
• 8. Fan/Celebrity Interactions and Social Media: Connectivity and Engagement in Lady Gaga Fandom ( Lucy Bennett )
• 9. Fans of Folklore Performances: Identifying a New Relationship Between Communication and Marketing ( Angela Chang )
• 10. Investors and Patrons, Gatekeepers and Social Capital: Representations and Experiences of Fans' Participation in Fan Funding ( Francesco D'Amato )
• 11. Music Fans as Mediators in the Age of Digital Reproduction ( Arturo Arriagada and Victor Cruz )
• 12. Celebrity: The Return of the Repressed in Fan Studies? ( Mark Duffett )
• 13. Fans Who Cut Their Soaps Queer: A Queer Theoretical Study into Online Fandom of Gay Television Representation ( Frederik Dhaenens and Sofie Van Bauwel )
• Part III Locali ties of Fandom
• 14. Transnational Cultural Fandom ( Hye-Kyung Lee )
• 15. Retreating Behind the Scenes: The 'Less'-Civilizing Impact of Virtual Spaces on the Irish Heavy Metal Scene ( Gary Sinclair )
• 16. 'Kvlt-er than Thou': Power, Suspicion and Nostalgia within Black Metal Fandom ( Ross Hagen )
• 17. A Decade in the Life of Online Fan Communities ( Ruth A. Deller )
• 18. Placing Fan Cultures: Xenites in the Transnational Spaces of Fandom ( Kaarina Nikunen )
• 19. Embodied Fantasy: The Affective Space of Anime Conventions ( Nicolle Lamerichs )
• 20. Watching Football in the Fan Park: Mediatization, Spectatorship and Fan Identity ( Karin Becker, Robert Kautsky and Andreas Widholm )
• 21. 'We're Not Racist, We Only Hate Mancs': Post-Subculture and Football Fandom ( Steve Redhead )
• Index