ISBN:
9780415617642
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (225 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Cult Collectors
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cult Collectors examines cultures of consumption and the fans who collect cult film and TV merchandise. Author Lincoln Geraghty argues that there has been a change in the fan convention space, where collectible merchandise and toys, rather than just the fictional text, have become objects for trade, nostalgia, and a focal point for fans' personal narratives. New technologies also add to this changing identity of cult fandom whereby popular websites such as eBay and ThinkGeek become cyber sites of memory and profit for cult fan communities.The book opens with an analysis of the problematic repr
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting; PART I Stereotypes; 1 Contesting Comic Book Guy: Stereotypes of the Nerd, Fan and Cult Collector in Film and Television; 2 Movie Magic: Collecting, Authenticity and the Enduring Fandom of Hollywood Memorabilia; PART II People; 3 Masculine Pursuits? Gender, Generation and the Fan Collector; 4 Repackaging Generation One: Genre, Memory and the Remediation of The Transformers in Contemporary Fan Culture; PART III Places
Description / Table of Contents:
5 From Convention Space to Fan Heterotopia: Popular Fandom and the Cult Geographies of the San Diego Comic-Con6 Playing with the Force: Fan Identity, Cultural Capital and Star Wars Toy Collecting; PART IV Spaces; 7 Trading on the Popular: Shops, Megastores, Online Spaces and the Culture of Fan Consumption; 8 (Re)Constructing Childhood Memories: Nostalgia, Narrative and the Expanded Worlds of Lego Fandom; Conclusion: Collecting History, Collecting the Self; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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