Anti-fandom: dislike and hate in the digital age
Anti-fandom: dislike and hate in the digital age
The work of a fan takes many forms, such as following a celebrity on Instagram or creating fan art as homages to adored characters. While feelings of like and love are commonly understood, examined less frequently are the equally intense, but opposite feelings. Disinterest. Disg…
Bitten by Twilight
by Click, Melissa A., Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth, Stevens Aubrey, Jennifer
fromMediated youth
Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the series and to the recurrent mess…
"This lively collection of essays explores the narrative riches of the Twilight stories themselves even as it looks seriously at the ways they have been marketed and taken up both by their passionate fans and by critics who see them as evidence of a range of cultural and politic…