Category: Volume 13

An appraisal of AMC’s The Walking Dead and how the show participates in the zombie genre’s shift from B-grade schlock to “Quality TV” and mainstream Hollywood.

This article, the second in an ongoing series, offers a critical examination of race in television networks’ “upfronts,” the photographs distributed to promote new shows. Does the television industry reinforce hegemony through the images used to promote these shows?

An examination of the use of celebrity image in Burmese advertising.

What we study and how we learn to talk about it is productive of our identities along mostly covert dimensions of power. How do scholars distinguish themselves from the mainstream critics?

The application of fandom and its resources is not the same in all cultures, and African fans might not be recognized as legitimate fans. The point of this piece is to demonstrate that there is a unifying figure of American domination of mass culture.

A scholar argues that embracing an “overly confessional” approach to his academic writing is integral to the fidelity of his research.

There has been a peculiar framing of fan practices as inherently admirable, or at least deserving of respect, throughout recent scholarship on fandom. Yet some fan practices are repugnant. The Gathering of the Juggalos is the scene of questionable fan practices contrary to the noble portrait of fandom elaborated by several scholars.

Given how Aca-fandom has created its own canon and looks down its nose at certain cultural forms like sports broadcasting, we could use a little of Adorno’s elitism in the discipline today.

Fans hold their objects of study to a higher standard. How can the critical study of any text succeed without the passionate and knowledgeable participation of the scholar?

A look at the specific pedagogical value of fandom as an activity and how it can be appropriated in a variety of educational contexts.

Gunnels and Klink argue that fan studies parallels performance studies in discerning tensions between researcher and subject.