ISBN:
9780786476947
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (215 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version It Happens at Comic-Con : Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon
DDC:
741.5/973
Keywords:
San Diego Comic-Con
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Comic book fans
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Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Marketing
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Popular culture -- United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer. Investigations range from the practices of fans costuming themselves to the talk of corporate marketers. The collection seeks to expand fan studies, exploring Comic-Con International more deeply than any publication before it
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; Foreword: Visiting Comic-Con, Revisiting Comic Book Culture (Matthew Pustz); Introduction: The Pilgrimage to Comic-Con (Matthew J. Smith); Part I: Identity and Play at Comic-Con; Actualized Fantasy at Comic-Con and the Confessions of a "Sad Cosplayer" (Kane Anderson); "Love to Mess with Minds": En(gendering) Identities Through Crossplay (Catherine Thomas); Part II: Gendered Fandom; Queer Conversations: LGBTIQ Consumer/Producer Interface at Comic-Con and the Intransitive Writing of Comics (Ben Bolling)
Description / Table of Contents:
Soaring to New (?) Heights: Cute, Tough, Geek Girls and Post-Feminist Discourse (Lisa H. Kaplan)You Don't Own Me: The Representation of Twilight Fandom MELISSA MILLER; Part III: Negotiating Fandom Through Communicative Practice; "What Can You TellMe About [Blank]?"Exploring the SocialRules of Fan Talk (Brian Swafford); Facing Front True Believers: Panels as Exercises in Image Management (Jon Judy and Brad Palmer); "You are not a true geek, I am": The Role of Communicative Aggression in Geek Culture (Chad Wertley); Part IV: Technology and Participation
Description / Table of Contents:
"Ask me about my zombie plan": Fan Dissection and Female Participation in RedvsBlue (Cameron Catalfu)Where Are the Web Shows? (Tanya D. Zuk); Part V: Attending Con; What Are We Waiting For? A Look at Line Culture (Regina C. Gasser); Tense Proximities Between CCI's Comic Book Consumers, Fans and Creators (Christian Sager); The Volunteer Experience: Meaning, Motivation and Role Conflict in a Temporary Organization (Michael J. Tornes); Afterword (Randy Duncan and Pete M. Coogan); References; About the Contributors; Index
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