"I'm Buffy, and you're history": Putting fan studies into history [editorial]

Transformative Works and Cultures

Nancy Reagin¹  Anne Rubenstein² 

[1] Pace University, New York, New York, United States;York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;

关键词: Fan history;    Female fan;    Tarzan;    Karl May;    Science fiction;    Wiki;    Zine;    Sherlockian;    Fan letter;    Music fan;    Sports fan;    Cultural exchange;    Cross-ethnic identification;    Cold war;    Lord of the Rings;    Tolkien;    Copyright;    Walter Benjamin;   

DOI  :  10.3983/twc.2011.0272

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This essay kicks off the special historical issue of Transformative Works and Cultures by offering an overview of the ways in which fan communities have been studied by academic historians, and how fan studies has written the history of fan communities. The essay discusses historical work done by amateur fan historians throughout the 20th century; what academic historians can offer fan communities; why academic historians could benefit from studying fandoms as part of the history of popular culture; and what fan studies as a discipline might gain from a broader historical analysis of fandoms.

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