April
Tuesday April 5th midnight individual Middlebury Media Culture papers due to Canvas
(note new due date!)
April 5 Readings
- Textual Poachers Chapter 2 How Texts Become Real
- Paul Booth, “Introduction" Digital Fandom
- Nancy Baym, Tune In, Log On Chapter 3
Week 8 Audience Discontent & Antifandom
April 12 Readings
- TP Chapters 3 “Fan Critics”; TP Chapter 4 “It’s not a fairy tale anymore: Genre, Gender, and Beauty and the Beast.”
- Kristina Busse, Geek Hierarchies, http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/08/13/geek-hierarchies-boundary-policing-and-the-good-fanbad-fan-dichotomy/
http://www.slashfilm.com/the-x-files-revival-review/
- Jacqueline M. Pinkowitz, "The rabid fans that take [Twilight] much too seriously": The construction and rejection of excess in Twilight antifandom
- Aja Romano, The rise of the anti-fandom fandom (The Daily Dot)
Week 9 The Politics & Power of Audience Authorship
April 19 Readings
- TP Chapters 5 Scribbling in the Margins/TP Chapter 6 Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk
- Louisa Stein, “Misha Collins and the Power of Decentered Authorship” Millennial Fandom
- Rukmini Pande "Squeeze From the Margins: Racial/Cultural/Ethnic Identity in Global Media Fandom Seeing Fans (link goes to class protected preproduction proofs; please do not distribute)
Week 10 Transformative Work
****Class Meets This Week at the Library: LIB 145****
April 26 Readings
- TP Chapters 7 Layers of Meaning
- Stein, Louisa and Kristina Busse. “Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context.”
- Hellekson, Karen and Kristina Busse. “Identity, Ethics, and Fan Privacy.”
- "On Kale, Transmedia, and Winning GISHWHES," http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2014/05/23/on-kale-transmedia-and-winning-gishwhes/