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The Fanfiction Reader
Folk Tales for the Digital AgeFrancesca Coppa
University of Michigan Press, 2017
Written originally as a fanfiction for the series Twilight, the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey has made obvious what was always clear to fans and literary scholars alike: that it is an essential human activity to read and retell epic stories of famous heroic characters. The Fanfiction Reader showcases the extent to which the archetypal storytelling exemplified by fanfiction has continuities with older forms: the communal tale-telling cultures of the past and the remix cultures of the present have much in common. Short stories that draw on franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, James Bond, and others are accompanied by short contextual and analytical essays wherein Coppa treats fanfiction—a genre primarily written by women and minorities—as a rich literary tradition in which non-mainstream themes and values can thrive.
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Theatre Fandom
Engaged Audiences in the Twenty-first CenturyKirsty Sedgman
University of Iowa Press, 2025
By bringing together a range of discussions from leading international fan and performance studies scholars, Theatre Fandom tracks key case studies of theatre fans across different eras, performance forms, and cultures. The contributors emphasize the importance of considering theatrical elements such as pleasure, engagement, allure, enjoyment, and love. They illustrate how leveraging fan enthusiasm can foster greater and more meaningful participation in the cultural industries, potentially guiding us towards a thriving post-pandemic future for theatre.
Contributors: Tom Cantrell, Francesca Coppa, Ruth Foulis, Helen Freshwater, Emily Garside, Caroline Heim, Matt Hills, Natalie Ibu, Laura MacDonald, Dominique Morisseau, Rachael Nicholas, Louie Lang Norman, Owen G. Parry, Stephanie E. Pitts, Sarah M. Price, Beth Emily Richards, Kirsty Sedgman, Megan Vaughan, Ben Walmsley, Sarah K. Whitfield
Contributors: Tom Cantrell, Francesca Coppa, Ruth Foulis, Helen Freshwater, Emily Garside, Caroline Heim, Matt Hills, Natalie Ibu, Laura MacDonald, Dominique Morisseau, Rachael Nicholas, Louie Lang Norman, Owen G. Parry, Stephanie E. Pitts, Sarah M. Price, Beth Emily Richards, Kirsty Sedgman, Megan Vaughan, Ben Walmsley, Sarah K. Whitfield
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Vidding
A HistoryFrancesca Coppa
University of Michigan Press, 2022
Vidding is a well-established remix practice where fans edit an existing film, music video, TV show, or other performance and set it to music of their choosing. Vids emerged forty years ago as a complicated technological feat involving capturing footage from TV with a VCR and syncing with music—and their makers and consumers were almost exclusively women, many of them queer women. The technological challenges of doing this kind of work in the 1970s and 1980s when vidding began gave rise to a rich culture of collective work, as well as conventions of creators who gathered to share new work and new techniques. While the rise of personal digital technology eventually democratized the tools vidders use, the collective aspect of the culture grew even stronger with the advent of YouTube, Vimeo, and other channels for sharing work.
Vidding: A History emphasizes vidding as a critical, feminist form of fan practice. Working outward from interviews, VHS liner notes, convention programs, and mailing list archives, Coppa offers a rich history of vidding communities as they evolved from the 1970s through to the present. Built with the classroom in mind, the open-access electronic version of this book includes over one-hundred vids and an appendix that includes additional close readings of vids.
Vidding: A History emphasizes vidding as a critical, feminist form of fan practice. Working outward from interviews, VHS liner notes, convention programs, and mailing list archives, Coppa offers a rich history of vidding communities as they evolved from the 1970s through to the present. Built with the classroom in mind, the open-access electronic version of this book includes over one-hundred vids and an appendix that includes additional close readings of vids.
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