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It happens at comic-con : ethnographic essays on a pop culture phenomenon / edited Ben Bolling and Matthew J. Smith

Bolling, Ben [Herausgeber] ; Smith, Matthew J.,i1971- [Herausgeber]

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, [2014]

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (215 Seiten)

Description based upon print version of record

978-1-476-61447-2 ; 978-0-7864-7694-7

LB 42610 LB 40610 LC 84610 AP 89260 AP 88666

 

Comic  Cosplay  Fan  Messe, Wirtschaft  Subkultur  f Online-Publikation 

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.