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"Boys' love, cosplay, and androgynous idols," edited by Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao
No full textReview of Lavin, Maud, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao, eds. 2017. Boys’ love, cosplay, and androgynous idols: Queer fan cultures in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Hardcover $60.00/£47.00 (256p), ISBN 9789888390809
Gender, voice, and canon
No full textThe Jewish tradition of midrash (exegetical/interpretive fiction) parallels the fannish tradition of creating fan works in more ways than one. In the twentieth century, both contexts saw the rise of women's voices, shifting or commenting on androcentric canon—and in both contexts today, that gender binarism is giving way to a more complicated and multifaceted tapestry of priorities and voices
Meaning making, sacred reading, and political engagement in the "Harry Potter and the Sacred Text" podcast
No full textThe cohosts of the Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, Vanessa Zoltan and Casper ter Kuile, along with producer Ariana Nedelman, work chapter by chapter through the Harry Potter series, reading each chapter through randomly selected themes and applying sacred textual reading practices to find hidden layers of meaning within the text. This witches' brew of analysis invites their listeners to move from fandom-focused media consumers to promoters of fandom-inspired political engagement
"Chinese stardom in participatory cyberculture," by Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
No full textReview of Dorothy Wai Sim Lau. Chinese stardom in participatory cyberculture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, hardback, £75 (224p) ISBN 978-1474430333
Relationshipping nations: Philippines/US fan art and fan fiction
No full textThree fan productions are analyzed that delve into the question of what the Philippines and the United States have meant to one another, what the nature of their multifaceted involvement has been for more than a century, what Filipinos feel about the United States of America, and what Americans feel about the Philippines. Fan art and fan fiction are often laden with affect because it is the fact that fan creators are so affected by their favorite media texts that leads them to create fan works in the first place, and that makes their fellow fans, who understand the affects that inspire them, appreciate their works so deeply. Fan productions about the Philippines/United States are similarly suffused with feelings—the feelings that two nations and two peoples have for one another, which are difficult to define, articulate, and express for Filipinos, Americans, and Filipino Americans
Fans of color in femslash
No full textThis roundtable discussion brings together a group of fans of color to discuss their experiences specifically in femslash fandom. 
The queen of Sheba as a transformative work protagonist
No full textThe story of the queen of Sheba has often puzzled commentators with its numerous late transformations, which are both colorful and sexual. The transformations of the queen of Sheba's story invoke many of the patterns familiar from fan fiction. Such transformations of ancient tales also provide preliminary explanations of why the themes in the various versions of her story appear again and again. This too shows parallels with fan fiction
"Squee from the margins: Race and fandom" by Rukmini Pande
No full textReview of Rukmini Pande. Squee from the margins: Race and fandom. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018. Paperback $67.50 (256p) ISBN 9781609386184
Animal fans: Toward a multispecies fan studies
No full textIn an exploration of the potential for (and implications of) animal fans—not human fans of animals but nonhuman animals as fans—situated in ongoing debates about the personhood of nonhuman species, I suggest ways that the animal turn taking place in the humanities and social sciences might affect fan studies. I focus on four characteristics associated with both human fans and nonhuman animals: culture, emotionality, sociality, and capacity for creative play
Structural affects of soap opera fan correspondence, 1970s–80s
No full textPaper correspondence between fans and creators/producers is a sort of historiographic challenge to the imagined shift from so-called analog to digital fandom. It opens the possibility of applying digital methodologies to archival objects as researchers continue to historicize fan practices, identities, and cultures. Using the archival papers of soap opera showrunners Frank and Doris Hursley, and Bridget and Jerome Dobson as a case study for this structural-affective analysis, I draw data and metadata from approximately three hundred fan letters and responses. Trends of emotion across the letters figure prominently in an analysis of the affective strategies used by both fans and creators to create an intimately collaborative televisual experience. The letters contain layers of valuable metadata, including filing conventions, typography, and collage; these permit identification of negotiations of power over the televisual narrative, and they provide valuable insights into the affective textures of the soap fan's everyday life. Digital fan studies foregrounds the integration of fandom into one's online life, as well as the importance of social media in closing the gulf between fan and creator. This praxis expands on the value of analog tools—pen, paper, scissors, and typewriter—to the predigital television fan's virtual life. Material communication played and continues to play an important role in fomenting fannish identity, exercising industrial literacy, performing affective engagement, and navigating an enduring, affectionate tension between author and audience