It's always puzzled me as to how officially recognised spin-off novels of my favourite television shows can be so bad, given that the authors presumably have access to the show in ways that amateur fanfic writers can only dream of. But over my holiday last week I read Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers and Other Media Paratexts by Jonathan Gray ( Read more... )

I've just started reading Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-First Century (because I get very academic about my passions) and I think I'm going to like it. Mainly because of three things Matt Hills writes in his introduction:

"[O]ne person's 'jargon' is another's useful vocabulary, and ... fandom is often as guilty of ( Read more... )

You guys should see the amount of research I'm doing for this article on Supernatural religion! But, anyway, among all that research I found this artcile, by which I am hoping to live:

Lynn Schofield Clark, ‘Why Study Popular Culture? Or, How to Build a Case for your Thesis in a Religious Studies or Theology Department’, in Gordon Lynch (ed.), ( Read more... )