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Introduction / Koos Zwaan, Linda Duits and Stijn Reijnders
Part I. Re-defining the fan: 1. Returning to 'becoming-a-fan' stories: theorising transformational objects and the emergence/extension of fandom / Matt Hills; 2. Populating the universe: toy collecting and adult lives / Kristen N. Bryant, Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington; 3. Much ado about Keanu Reeves: the drama of ageing in online fandom / Shenja van der Graaf; 4. Music for (something other than) pleasure: anti-fans and the other side of Popular Music Appeal49 / Liz Giuffre; 5. A severe case of disliking bimbo heidi, scumbag jesse and bastard tiger: analysing celebrities' online anti-fans / Nathalie Claessens and Hilde Van den Bulck; 6. Fandom as survival in media life / The Janissary Collective; 7. From interpretive communities to interpretative fairs: ordinary fandom, textual selection and digital media / Cornel Sandvoss and Laura Kearns
Part II. Fans and producers: 8. Fan/celebrity interactions and social media: connectivity and engagement in Lady Gaga fandom / Lucy Bennett; 9. Fans of folklore performances: identifying a new relationship between communication and marketing / Angela Chang; 10. Investors and patrons, gatekeepers and social capital: representations and experiences of fans' participation in fan funding / Francesco D'Amato; 11. Music fans as mediators in the age of digital reproduction / Arturo Arriagada and Victor Cruz; 12. Celebrity: the return of the repressed in fan studies? / Mark Duffett; 13. Fans who cut their soaps queer: a queer theoretical study into online fandom of gay television representation / Frederik Dhaenens and Sofie Van Bauwel
Part III. Localities of fandom 14. Transnational cultural fandom / Hye-Kyung Lee; 15. Retreating behind the scenes: the 'less'-civilizing impact of virtual spaces on the irish heavy metal scene / Gary Sinclair; 16. 'Kult-er than thou': power, suspicion and nostalgia within black metal fandom / Ross Hagen; 17. A decade in the life of online fan communities / Ruth A. Deller; 18. Placing fan cultures: Xenites in the transnational spaces of fandom / Kaarina Nikunen; 19. Embodied fantasy: the affective space of anime conventions / Nicolle Lamerichs; 20. Watching football in the fan park: mediatization, spectatorship and fan identity / Karin Becker, Robert Kautsky and Andreas Widholm; 21. 'We're not racist, we only hate Mancs': post-subculture and football fandom / Steve Redhead; Football index.
Acknowledgements
Introduction / Koos Zwaan, Linda Duits and Stijn Reijnders
Part I. Re-defining the fan: 1. Returning to 'becoming-a-fan' stories: theorising transformational objects and the emergence/extension of fandom / Matt Hills; 2. Populating the universe: toy collecting and adult lives / Kristen N. Bryant, Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington; 3. Much ado about Keanu Reeves: the drama of ageing in online fandom / Shenja van der Graaf; 4. Music for (something other than) pleasure: anti-fans and the other side of Popular Music Appeal49 / Liz Giuffre; 5. A severe case of disliking bimbo heidi, scumbag jesse and bastard tiger: analysing celebrities' online anti-fans / Nathalie Claessens and Hilde Van den Bulck; 6. Fandom as survival in media life / The Janissary Collective; 7. From interpretive communities to interpretative fairs: ordinary fandom, textual selection and digital media / Cornel Sandvoss and Laura Kearns
Part II. Fans and producers: 8. Fan/celebrity interactions and social media: connectivity and engagement in Lady Gaga fandom / Lucy Bennett; 9. Fans of folklore performances: identifying a new relationship between communication and marketing / Angela Chang; 10. Investors and patrons, gatekeepers and social capital: representations and experiences of fans' participation in fan funding / Francesco D'Amato; 11. Music fans as mediators in the age of digital reproduction / Arturo Arriagada and Victor Cruz; 12. Celebrity: the return of the repressed in fan studies? / Mark Duffett; 13. Fans who cut their soaps queer: a queer theoretical study into online fandom of gay television representation / Frederik Dhaenens and Sofie Van Bauwel
Part III. Localities of fandom 14. Transnational cultural fandom / Hye-Kyung Lee; 15. Retreating behind the scenes: the 'less'-civilizing impact of virtual spaces on the irish heavy metal scene / Gary Sinclair; 16. 'Kult-er than thou': power, suspicion and nostalgia within black metal fandom / Ross Hagen; 17. A decade in the life of online fan communities / Ruth A. Deller; 18. Placing fan cultures: Xenites in the transnational spaces of fandom / Kaarina Nikunen; 19. Embodied fantasy: the affective space of anime conventions / Nicolle Lamerichs; 20. Watching football in the fan park: mediatization, spectatorship and fan identity / Karin Becker, Robert Kautsky and Andreas Widholm; 21. 'We're not racist, we only hate Mancs': post-subculture and football fandom / Steve Redhead; Football index.