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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100415905729
ISBN-139780415905725
eBay Product ID (ePID)317582
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameTextual Poachers : Television Fans and Participatory Culture
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMedia Studies, Television & Video, Popular Culture
Publication Year1992
TypeTextbook
AuthorHenry Jenkins
Subject AreaArt, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN92-019400
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306/.1
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. "Get a Life!": Fans, Poachers, Nomads 2. How Texts become Real 3. Fan Critics 4. "It's Not a Fairy Tale Anymore": Gender, Genre,Beauty and the Beast 5. Scribbling in the Margins: Fan Readers/Fan Writers 6. "Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk": Slash and the Fan-Writing Community 7. "Layers of Meaning": Fan Music Video and the Poetics of Poaching 8. "Strangers No More, We Sing": Filk Music, Folk Culture, and the Fan Community Conclusion: "In My Weekend-Only World...": Reconsidering Fandom Appendix: Fan Texts (Prepared by Meg Garrett) Sources Index
Synopsis"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices. Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, Textual Poachers offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism. Drawing on the work of Michel de Certau, Jenkins shows how fans of Star Trek , Blake's 7 , The Professionals , Beauty and the Beast , Starsky and Hutch, Alien Nation, Twin Peaks , and other popular programs exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, videos, and social interatctions. Addressing both academics and fans, Jenkins builds a powerful case for the richness of fan culture as a popular response to the mass media and as a challenge to the producers' attempts to regulate textual meanings. Textual Poachers guides readers through difficult questions about popular consumption, genre, gender, sexuality, and interpretation, documenting practices and processes which test and challenge basic assumptions of contemporary media theory., "Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachersargues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices. Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, Textual Poachers offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism. Drawing on the work of Michel de Certau, Jenkins shows how fans of Star Trek, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Beauty and the Beast, Starsky and Hutch, Alien Nation, Twin Peaks, and other popular programs exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, videos, and social interatctions. Addressing both academics and fans, Jenkins builds a powerful case for the richness of fan culture as a popular response to the mass media and as a challenge to the producers' attempts to regulate textual meanings. Textual Poachersguides readers through difficult questions about popular consumption, genre, gender, sexuality, and interpretation, documenting practices and processes which test and challenge basic assumptions of contemporary media theory.
LC Classification NumberHM291.J42 1992
