Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol 2
The second issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, an online peer-reviewed journal devoted to popular media and fan communities, is now out — another splendid and substantial package of theory,...
View ArticleNew Works in Fan Studies
It’s always nice to see friends doing well, and in the case of Kristina Busse, there’s an added reward — seeing her name in print always means that something new and interesting is being said in the...
View ArticleCFP: Materiality and Object-Oriented Fandom (March 2014)
I’m excited to be guest-editing a special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on objects and artifacts in media fandom! The CfP follows. Alongside its consumption and transformation of texts,...
View ArticleFan studies network
Passing along this exciting announcement … We are pleased to announce the formation of The Fan Studies Network. Open to scholars at all levels, the FSN is concerned with bringing together those...
View ArticleFranz Joseph and Star Trek’s Blueprint Culture
As part of a larger project I’m preparing on “blueprint culture” — fan subcultures devoted to drawing, drafting, charting, mapping, and playing the worlds of science-fiction media — here is a brief...
View ArticleTWC: special issue on fan/remix video
Thrilled to spread word of this new issue, co-edited by two friends and featuring an interview by an old pal from IU, Brett Boessen! A call for my own guest-edited issue, on materiality and...
View ArticleHungry for recognition
As usual, I can’t say to what degree the fast-moving currents of vituperation and one-up-manship on the /tv/ board of 4chan summarize the opinions shared by wider communities of fantastic-media fandom....
View ArticleSharing — or stealing? — Trek
In a neat coincidence, yesterday’s New York Times featured two articles that intersect around the concerns of internet piracy and intellectual property rights on the one hand, and struggles between fan...
View ArticleTilt-Shifting Pacific Rim
Two-thirds of the way through Pacific Rim — just after an epic battle in, around, and ultimately over Hong Kong that’s one of the best-choreographed setpieces of cinematic SF mayhem I have ever...
View ArticleMaking Mine Marvel
Reading Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013) I am learning all sorts of things. Or rather, some things I am learning and some things I am relearning, as...
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