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9780812230987

Enterprising Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812230987

  • ISBN10:

    0812230981

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-02-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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A study of the worldwide community of fans of Star Trek and other genre television series who create and distribute fiction and art based on their favorite series. This community includes people from all walks of life--housewives, librarians, secretaries, and professors of medieval literature. Ninety percent of its members are women

Table of Contents

Who Are These People and What Are They Doing?p. 1
Introduction: Studying Fandomp. 3
The Media Fanzine Communityp. 7
Fan Fiction and Material Artp. 44
A Closer Look at the Community and Its Artp. 79
Training New Membersp. 81
Second Stage Initiation: Learning about Videotapep. 115
Reading Fan Fictionp. 141
Visual Meaningp. 175
Transgression and Identityp. 201
Identity and Riskp. 203
Homoerotic Romancep. 228
Suffering and Solace: The Genre of Painp. 255
Looking Backward: Play, Creativity, and Narrativep. 282
Methodologyp. 299
An Introduction to the Language of the Fan Community: Glossaryp. 306
Who Are Fanziners?: Demographicsp. 319
p. 324
Indexp. 335
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