Doctor Who (2005)

Kim Newman, Doctor Who. London: BFI publishing, 2005. My rating: *** Doctor Who by Kim Newman Kim Newman is a well-known and prolific author of genre novels, overviews on cult and horror film and TV and a reviewer for the film magazine Empire. This book, an entry in the excellent BFI TV classics series, is [...]

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UFO (1970)

My rating: ***** UFO series home page I first saw this series back in the early 1970s when it originally went to air on Australian television. I was fascinated by it at the time but it was not until 1995 during a visit to France that my vague and distant memories of the series were [...]

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Textual Poachers

Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992. My rating: **** Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins This is the seminal foundational text in terms of academic studies of fandom. Even if it was published in 1992 before the explosion of internet fandom and a more [...]

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Theorizing fandom

Cheryl Harris, Alison Alexander (eds). Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture, and Identity. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 1998. My rating:*** Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture and Identity by Cheryl Harris This is a rather useful edited collection about various media fandoms and fan practices. There is the usual stuff on slash included. Of course the book’s appearance in [...]

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Fan Fiction and Fan Communities

Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (eds.) 2006. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. My rating: *** My review Quite interesting with some useful if rather rushed definitions of the some of the jargon used by fan fiction writers in the introduction. A large [...]

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Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction

Rebecca W. Black. (2008). Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies). New York: Peter Lang. My rating: *** Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction by Rebecca W. Black This book uses current educational theory to discuss adolescent fan fiction. The book is useful in that it attempts to argue for the importance of [...]

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