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Fanfiction and the author: how fanfic changes popular cultural texts

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Through a rigorous quantitative/qualitative discourse analysis - never before undertaken in relation to online fanfiction and its reception - Fanfiction and the Author demonstrates how fanfic relating to Sherlock, Game of Thrones and Supernatural works to change and consolidate the discourses of masculinity, authority, and authorship created through these TV texts. As a result, this book innovatively explores how fanfic - the unauthorized creative (re)writing of media fans - alters the discursive formations of popular culture. This, the first large-scale study of fanfic to employ an approach attentive to the sites, receptions, and fan rejections of fanfic, demonstrates that fanfic often legitimates itself through traditional notions of authorship. However, in its explicit discussion and deconstruction of the author figure, fan culture is also beginning to contest those traditional discourses of authority upon which it has depended, paving the way for new kinds of writing that challenge the authority of media professionals.

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Transmedia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Call Number

791 FAT f

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2017

Collation

233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789089649959

Classification

791

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Subject(s)

Fan fiction
Popular culture
Literature and the Internet

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