Fan Phenomena
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Fan Phenomena: The Hunger Games
By Nicola BalkindFan Phenomena: The Hunger Games charts the series’ success through the increasingly vocal online communities that drive the young adult book market.
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Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks
By Marisa C. Hayes, Franck BoulegueFeaturing commentary from both first-generation and more recent followers, these essays capture the endlessly fascinating universe of Twin Peaks, from Audrey Horne's keen sense of style to Agent Cooper's dream psychology.
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Fan Phenomena: Star Wars
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Fan Phenomena: Batman
By Liam BurkeForeword Will Brooker porated, the comic, was launched at the same time that Bruce Wayne launched 'Batman lncorporated', ... His PhD was on Batman's cultural history from 1939—99 — published as Batman Unmasked (2000) and his most recent ...
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Fan Phenomena: Audrey Hepburn
By Jacqui MillerIn her 2002 book Growing Up With Audrey Hepburn: Text, Audience, Resonance, Rachael Moseley has traced these associations to the 1950s noting that any reservations about a perceived shift in women adopting trousers as part of their ...
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Fan Phenomena: James Bond
By Claire HinesIncluding analyses of Bond as a lifestyle icon, the Bond brand, Bond-inspired fan works, and the many versions of 007, the book reveals a fan culture that is vibrant, powerfully engaged and richly aware of the history and complexity of the ...
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Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski
By Zachary IngleThese gatherings – part costume contest, part bowling tournament, part trivia contest, part fan meet-up – have, since their debut in Louisville, K Y, in 2002, sprung up all around America and have even expanded globally, and the book ...
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Fan Phenomena: Star Wars
By Mika ElovaaraAcademically informed but written for a general audience, this book will appeal to every fan and critic of the films. That is, all of us.
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Fan Phenomena: Marilyn Monroe
By Marcelline BlockChapter 4 Marilyn Monroe's Dresses Ange Webb In his book Dressing Marilyn: How a Hollywood Icon Was Styled by William Travilla (2011), Andrew Hansford states that, 'costume is the second skin of the actor'. Fig. 1: Marilyn Monroe in ...
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Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes
By Tom Ue, Jonathan CranfieldThe Creation of'The Boy Sherlock Holmes' Shane Peacock Fig. 3: The two Arthur Ellis Award-winning books with ... It is my hope that all young readers who experience it will become as fascinated as I now am with Sherlock Holmes.
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Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who
By Paul BoothNow, sites like Doctor Who FanFiction Archive and A Teaspoon and an Open Mind offer fans the opportunity to write and read stories across genres that encompass romance, adventure and character studies: Other stories dramatize missing ...
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Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
By Jennifer K. StullerThis is a brilliant and compulsively readable exploration of the fandom dynamic in the context of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Fan Phenomena: Audrey Hepburn
By Jacqui MillerThe book looks at her iconographic relationship with female culture and fashion and situates Breakfast at Tiffany’s alongside the works of Edith Wharton and Sex and the City.
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Fan Phenomena: Jane Austen
By Gabrielle MalcolmRenishaw Hall and Gardens, Derbyshire, UK Renishaw Hall was used for the exterior shots of Pemberley in the fifth BBC television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, which aired in 1980. Yet this version is often overshadowed by the sixth ...
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Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter
By Valerie Estelle FrankelWhich are the best conventions, the best fanfiction and wizard rock? And, how has Potter aged and what does it still have to teach us? Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter offers Potter fans a taste of the best the fandom has to offer.
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Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks
By Marisa C. Hayes, Franck BoulegueFurther research areas include fantasy and post-September11 cinema, with publications including aforthcoming book, Fantasy Film Post 9/11(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Recent publications include 'lnstitu— tional Settings, Identity and ...
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Fan Phenomena: Twin Peaks
By Marisa C. Hayes, Franck BoulegueIn its quirky characters and complex storylines, Twin Peaks (1990—91) hit upon a formula that would later be cultivated by ... T—shirts, mugs, calendars, character trading cards and other articles of popular culture continue to mediate ...
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Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones
By Kavita Mudan FinnFan Phenomena: Game of Thrones is an exciting new addition to the Intellect series, bringing together academics and fans of Martin's universe to consider not just the content of the books and HBO series, but fan responses to both.
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Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes
By Tom Ue, Jonathan Cranfield, Emma RhysFew could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.
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Fan Phenomena: Disney
By Sabrina MittermeierAn exploration of the relationship between the world of Disney and its fandom. This collection of essays analyzes the fandom of Disney brands across a variety of media including film, television, novels, stage productions, and theme parks.