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Superfans and Scholars: Writing Fan Culture

PWR 2SSB - Winter 2016 - Instructor: Schuyler-Olmsted, S.
Last Updated: 3-Jan-2016

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Suggested titles in our libraries

These books are about the general subject of fandom and celebrity. Find more like these by using the subject links in the Searchworks records, and by browsing books nearby (call numbers).

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
Green Library » Stacks » HM646 .Z83 2012
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Oxford : Polity, 2005.
Green Library » Stacks » HM646 .S24 2005
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Suggested journals

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[Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University]
Green Library » Current periodicals
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Full text provided by PsycArticles.
[Silver Spring, MD] : Organization for Transformative Works
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From the journal's website:  TWC publishes articles about transformative works, broadly conceived; articles about media studies, articles about the fan community. We invite papers in all areas, including fan fiction, fam vids, film, TV, anime, comic books, fan community, video games, and machinima. We encourage a variety of critical approaches, including feminism, gender studies, queer theory, post-colonial theory, audience theory, reader-response theory, literary criticism, film studies, and posthumanism.

Suggested Databases

Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
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[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
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[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
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[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
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[Stamford, Conn.] : Softline Information, [2001]-
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