MIT Prof on Fandom

[selenite0]

Prof. Henry Jenkins wrote Textual Poachers, a cultural studies book which gives a chapter each to slash fanfic and filk songs. Has anybody out there read it? It came out in 1992, so I'm surprised I never heard of it before.

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[tmc4242.livejournal.com]

I've heard of it, but not read it. I'm pretty sure I've seen it mentioned in some ORAC related context. You might put a note out on the list and see if you get any bites there.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's in our library and now it's sitting on my desk. Anything in particular you want to know? :D

If you want to check it out and read it, you can go by the public library and pick up a TexShare card, thena pply here for borrowing privileges. I think you can check out up to 5 books. We reserve times when we're not at full staffing capacity for students, so the public is allowed in during the week during business hours, and Saturdays during business hours, pretty much.

We've got several other books on fandom as well, which you may ahe already heard of (The Bacon-SMith one, I'd be surprised if you *hadn't* heard of it). The first one sounds interesting to me; I'll have to check it out.

Bury, Rhiannon.
Cyberspaces of their own : female fandoms online / Rhiannon Bury.
New York : Peter Lang, c2005.

Theorizing fandom : fans, subculture, and identity / edited by Cheryl Harris, Alison Alexander.
Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c1998.

Science fiction fandom / edited by Joe Sanders.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

Bacon-Smith, Camille.
Enterprising women : television fandom and the creation of popular myth / Camille Bacon-Smith ; photographs by Stephanie A. Hall.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1992.


There's a couple of others here and there in the library that aren't listed under "Fans (Persons)" in the subject headings, so I'd have to search harder for them. But you can log in to lib.tcu.edu and search away - you won't be able to get e-books because our licenses restrict access to those to TCU affiliates, but you can check out any physical book.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Anything in particular you want to know?

Whether it's any good--which is subjective enough I'll have to read it for myself. :)
celticdragonfly has a TexShare card, so we may check it out this weekend. I was going to say "this weekend or next" but I have this hunch y'all may have reduced hours next week.

I've managed to miss Bacon-Smith and the rest so those may go on my future fan-anthropology reading list. Thanks for the pointers.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Bacon-Smith's also written another one on SF fandom that we have, "Science fiction culture".

A couple more that look interesting:

Author Davin, Eric Leif.
Title Partners in wonder : women and the birth of science fiction, 1926-1965 / Eric Leif Davin.

The cybercultures reader / edited by David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy. - this one is 768 pages of essays on all sorts of topics of interest to SF, comics, and media fandom as they relate to the Internet and technology, it looks like.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I swore I typed something about our hours, but I'm not sure what happened to it. :/

This weekend, 1-5 on Saturday, all next week 9-5, then closed from that Saturday through January 1st, opening on Jan 2. You bring the TexShare card in and fill out a form to apply for borrowing privileges here, and you *should* be able to check things out right then, although I can't say for sure.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Thanks!