From textual poachers to textual gifters : exploring fan community and celebrity in the field of fan cultural production

Early fan studies positioned fans as 'textual poachers' (Jenkins, 1992), suggesting that fans poach characters and materials from texts as an act of resistance towards commercial culture to form their own readings through fan cultural production such as fan fiction. As such, fans are often...

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Main Author: Chin, Bertha Catherine L. P.
Published: Cardiff University 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.584908