The Face of Fandom: Further Reading
For those of you following this project, you may be interested to read more about the various subjects we have discussed in these informal interviews. Below is a list of scholarly books and essays that have been written surrounding the subjects I am dealing with, provided to me by Kristina, thanks so much! I hope these provide you with all the outside information you could desire! The list is rather long, so it is behind the cut.
Books
Abercrombie, N.& Longhurst, B. (1998.) Audiences: A sociological theory of
performance and imagination. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bacon-Smith, Camille. 1992. Enterprising women: Television fandom and the
creation of popular myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Baym, Nancy K. 2000. Tune in, log on: Soaps, fandom, and online community.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bury, Rhiannon. 2005. Cyberspaces of their own: Female fandoms online. New
York: Peter Lang.
Harrington, C. Lee, and Denise D. Bielby. 1995. Soap fans: Pursuing pleasure
and making meaning in everyday life. Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ. Press.
Hills, Matt. 2002; Fan cultures. New York: Routledge.
Jenkins, Henry. 1992. Textual poachers: Television fans and participatory
culture. New York: Routledge.
---. 2006. Convergence culture : When old and new media collide. New York:
New York University Press.
Pugh, Sheenagh. 2005. The democratic genre: Fan fiction in a literary
context. Bridgend, UK: Seren.
Salmon, Catherine, and Don Symons. 2001. Warrior lovers: Erotic fiction,
evolution and female sexuality. London: Orion.
Sandvoss, Cornel. 2005. Fans: The mirror of consumption. Cambridge, UK:
Polity Press. [2 Chapters]
Essay Collections
Gray, Jonathan, Cornel Sandvoss, and C.L. Harrington. Ed. 2007. Fandom:
Identities and communities in a mediated world, New York: New York
University Press.
Harris, Cheryl and Alison Alexander. Ed. 1998. Theorizing fandom: Fans,
subculture and identity. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (including Mirna
Cicioni, Male pair-bonds and female desire in fan slash writing; Shoshanna
Green, Cynthia Jenkins, and Henry Jenkins. "Normal female interest in men
bonking")
Hellekson, Karen and Kristina Busse. Ed. 2006. Fan fiction and fan
communities in the age of the internet Jefferson, NC: McFarland. (including
Francesca Coppa, A Brief History of Media Fandom; Abigail Derecho, Archontic
literature: Definition, a history, and several theories of fan fiction;
Kristina Busse, My Life Is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the
Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances)
Lewis, Lisa A. Ed. 1992. The adoring audience. London: Routledge. [including
John Fiske, The cultural economy of fandom; Lawrence Grossberg, Is there a
fan in the house? The affective sensibility of fandom; Joli Jenson, Fandom
as pathology: The consequence of characterization.)
Other Essays
Coppa, F. (2008) Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish
vidding. Transformative Works and Cultures 1.
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/44. [first
comprehensive essay on vidding other than the chapter in Jenkins' book]
Gray, Jonathan. 2003. New audiences, new textualities: Anti-fans and
non-fans. International Journal of Cultural Studies 6:64-81. [Notion of
Antifan, which expands terminology]
Jones, Sara Gwenllian. 2002. The sex lives of cult television characters.
Screen 43:79-90. [First essay to seriously qurestion the
Incorporation/Resistance Paradigm for Slash Fan fiction]
Lamb, Patricia Frazer, and Diane Veith. 1986. Romantic myth, transcendence,
and Star Trek zines. In Erotic universe: Sexuality and fantastic literature,
ed. Donald Palumbo, 236-55. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [Very early Slash
essay: suggests that it is het romance that gets written onto slash
characters]
Lichtenberg, Jacqueline, Sondra Marshak, and Joan Winston. 1975.
Do-it-yourself Star Trek-The fan fiction. In "Star Trek" lives!, 221-74. New
York: Corgi. [1975!!]
Lothian, Alexis, Kristina Busse, and Robin Anne Reid. 2007. Yearning void
and infinite potential: Online slash fandom as queer female space. ELN 45.
[uses collective writing model; looks at community]
Penley, Constance. 1992. Feminism, psychoanalysis, and the study of popular
culture. In Cultural studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula
A. Treichler, 479-500. New York: Routledge. [important early psychoanalytic
reading]
Russ, Joanna. 1985. Pornography by women, for women, with love. In Magic
mommas, trembling sisters, Puritans and perverts: Feminist essays, 79-99.
Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press. [early essay focusing on pornographic
aspects of slash]
Scodari, Christine. 2003. Resistance re-examined: Gender, fan practices, and
science fiction television. Popular Communication 1:111-30. [essay that
criticizes slash; focus on het]
Woledge, Elizabeth. 2005. From slash to the mainstream: Female writers and
gender blending men. Extrapolation 46:50-65. [connects fanfiction writing
with professional fiction and the similarities--slash as genre]
Books
Abercrombie, N.& Longhurst, B. (1998.) Audiences: A sociological theory of
performance and imagination. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bacon-Smith, Camille. 1992. Enterprising women: Television fandom and the
creation of popular myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Baym, Nancy K. 2000. Tune in, log on: Soaps, fandom, and online community.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bury, Rhiannon. 2005. Cyberspaces of their own: Female fandoms online. New
York: Peter Lang.
Harrington, C. Lee, and Denise D. Bielby. 1995. Soap fans: Pursuing pleasure
and making meaning in everyday life. Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ. Press.
Hills, Matt. 2002; Fan cultures. New York: Routledge.
Jenkins, Henry. 1992. Textual poachers: Television fans and participatory
culture. New York: Routledge.
---. 2006. Convergence culture : When old and new media collide. New York:
New York University Press.
Pugh, Sheenagh. 2005. The democratic genre: Fan fiction in a literary
context. Bridgend, UK: Seren.
Salmon, Catherine, and Don Symons. 2001. Warrior lovers: Erotic fiction,
evolution and female sexuality. London: Orion.
Sandvoss, Cornel. 2005. Fans: The mirror of consumption. Cambridge, UK:
Polity Press. [2 Chapters]
Essay Collections
Gray, Jonathan, Cornel Sandvoss, and C.L. Harrington. Ed. 2007. Fandom:
Identities and communities in a mediated world, New York: New York
University Press.
Harris, Cheryl and Alison Alexander. Ed. 1998. Theorizing fandom: Fans,
subculture and identity. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (including Mirna
Cicioni, Male pair-bonds and female desire in fan slash writing; Shoshanna
Green, Cynthia Jenkins, and Henry Jenkins. "Normal female interest in men
bonking")
Hellekson, Karen and Kristina Busse. Ed. 2006. Fan fiction and fan
communities in the age of the internet Jefferson, NC: McFarland. (including
Francesca Coppa, A Brief History of Media Fandom; Abigail Derecho, Archontic
literature: Definition, a history, and several theories of fan fiction;
Kristina Busse, My Life Is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the
Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances)
Lewis, Lisa A. Ed. 1992. The adoring audience. London: Routledge. [including
John Fiske, The cultural economy of fandom; Lawrence Grossberg, Is there a
fan in the house? The affective sensibility of fandom; Joli Jenson, Fandom
as pathology: The consequence of characterization.)
Other Essays
Coppa, F. (2008) Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish
vidding. Transformative Works and Cultures 1.
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/44. [first
comprehensive essay on vidding other than the chapter in Jenkins' book]
Gray, Jonathan. 2003. New audiences, new textualities: Anti-fans and
non-fans. International Journal of Cultural Studies 6:64-81. [Notion of
Antifan, which expands terminology]
Jones, Sara Gwenllian. 2002. The sex lives of cult television characters.
Screen 43:79-90. [First essay to seriously qurestion the
Incorporation/Resistance Paradigm for Slash Fan fiction]
Lamb, Patricia Frazer, and Diane Veith. 1986. Romantic myth, transcendence,
and Star Trek zines. In Erotic universe: Sexuality and fantastic literature,
ed. Donald Palumbo, 236-55. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [Very early Slash
essay: suggests that it is het romance that gets written onto slash
characters]
Lichtenberg, Jacqueline, Sondra Marshak, and Joan Winston. 1975.
Do-it-yourself Star Trek-The fan fiction. In "Star Trek" lives!, 221-74. New
York: Corgi. [1975!!]
Lothian, Alexis, Kristina Busse, and Robin Anne Reid. 2007. Yearning void
and infinite potential: Online slash fandom as queer female space. ELN 45.
[uses collective writing model; looks at community]
Penley, Constance. 1992. Feminism, psychoanalysis, and the study of popular
culture. In Cultural studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula
A. Treichler, 479-500. New York: Routledge. [important early psychoanalytic
reading]
Russ, Joanna. 1985. Pornography by women, for women, with love. In Magic
mommas, trembling sisters, Puritans and perverts: Feminist essays, 79-99.
Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press. [early essay focusing on pornographic
aspects of slash]
Scodari, Christine. 2003. Resistance re-examined: Gender, fan practices, and
science fiction television. Popular Communication 1:111-30. [essay that
criticizes slash; focus on het]
Woledge, Elizabeth. 2005. From slash to the mainstream: Female writers and
gender blending men. Extrapolation 46:50-65. [connects fanfiction writing
with professional fiction and the similarities--slash as genre]