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Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts
Full text linkThe production, reception and discussion of fanfiction is a major aspect of contemporary global media. Thus far, however, the genre has been subject to relatively little rigorous qualitative or quantitative study-a problem that Judith M. Fathallah remedies here through close analysis of fanfiction related to Sherlock, Supernatural, and Game of Thrones. Her large-scale study of the sites, reception, and fan rejections of fanfic demonstrate how the genre works to legitimate itself through traditional notions of authorship, even as it deconstructs the author figure and contests traditional discourses of authority. Through a process she identifies as the 'legitimation paradox', Fathallah demonstrates how fanfic hooks into and modifies the discourse of authority, and so opens new spaces for writing that challenges the authority of media professionals
"Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts," by Judith May Fathallah
No full textReview of Judith May Fathallah. Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, hardcover, €99 (234p) ISBN 978-90-8964-995-9, eISBN 978-90-485-2908-7
Emo:How Fans Defined a Subculture
No full textFor many, the word “emo” calls to mind angsty teenagers, shaggy black haircuts, and skinny jeans. A popular music phenomenon in the early 2000s, emo is short for “emotional hardcore,” and refers to both a music genre and a youth scene notable for its androgynous style. Judith May Fathallah pushes beyond the stereotypes and social stigma to explore how online fandom has shaped the definition of emo, with significant implications both for millennial constructs of gender and for contemporary fan studies.First laying out the debate over what emo is, Fathallah walks superfans and newcomers through the culture surrounding the genre’s major bands, including the emo holy trinity: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At the Disco. Next she examines fans’ main mode of participation in the emo subculture—online communities such as LiveJournal, Tumblr, MySpace, and band websites. Taking a hard look at the gender politics that dominated those spaces, she unearths a subculture that simultaneously defines itself by its sensitivity and resistance to traditional forms of masculinity, yet ruthlessly enforces homophobic and sexist standards. Fathallah demonstrates fandom’s key role in defining emo as a concept and genre after 2001, with probing insight into its implications for gender constructions through popular music
Choosing Open Access for Books: Author Agency and the Open Book Collective
Full text linkThe Open Book Collective (OBC) brings together libraries and small-to-medium OA scholarly books publishers from across the world via a unique consortial funding model to enable the publication of OA books with no fee. Judith Fathallah is the Research Lead for the OBC and an academic author who decided in 2023 to publish her third monograph Open Access with a small, scholar-led, innovative press whose director is an expert in the field of media studies. In the first part of this talk Judith explains how she came to this decision, leaving behind the cachet of traditional publishing names, and why she would urge other academics to do the same. Academics cannot be asked to bear all of the risk of transition to a sustainable open access landscape for scholarly books – but, as we stand to benefit from this transition as educators, readers, authors and human beings, she contends that even precariously employed scholars such as myself we must bear some. Open Access Engagement Lead Kevin Sanders then briefly introduces the Open Book Collective\u27s funding model, and the range of small-to-medium scholarly publishers who are currently members of the OBC. We encourage authors, librarians and educators to explore these high quality publishers as options to work with and support. The OBC supports presses to move away from inequitable, unsustainable Book Processing Charges, towards an OA fairer, more inclusive and more diverse landscape for OA books. The options are available to us: now the time has come for authors and scholars to take up a more active role as key stakeholders in this change. See www.openbookcollective.org and www.openbookcollective.pubpub.or
Killer Fandom
Full text linkKiller Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us
The Open Book Collective: Supporting and Sustaining Bibliodiversity in Open Access Publishing
No full textPanel: Sustainable futures for OA book publishing: Sheffield, St. Andrews and the Open Book Collective. Judith Fathallah, Research and Outreach Associate/Research Fellow, Lancaster University/Coventry University @JudithFathallah Kyle Brady, Peter Barr, Head of Content & Collections, University of Sheffield, @tweeterBarr This hour-long session addresses the challenges and opportunities of funding and supporting sustainable Open Access books in libraries. Peter Barr, Head of Content and Collections at the University of Sheffield will discuss some of the challenges involved in creating sustainable processes and decision making to support OA book publishing (and other open infrastructure). He will outline how Sheffield has created an Open Scholarship fund to support community-led publishing initiatives from its existing library content budget and how this has been justified at institutional level. Kyle Brady, Scholarly Communications Manager from the University of St Andrews will discuss how he has managed advocacy, outreach and communication regarding supporting sustainable OA initiatives and opportunities to promote open research. He will discuss securing agreements to support publishers aligned with institutional objectives, and demonstrating and evidencing these decisions. He will also discuss the ways in which the Open Access team as St Andrews raises awareness of values-based OA publishers, builds trust in new initiatives, and educates academics on the benefits of OA publishing, on an individual level as well as institutional and societa
Killer Fandom:Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer
No full textKiller Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us
Transparency and reciprocity: Respecting fannish spaces in scholarly research.
Full text linkMost of us approaching fandom academically consider ourselves fans, and as such, may become accustomed to traversing back and forth across fannish and academic spaces with a degree of ease. Moreover, as fan studies gains in prominence, these spaces are beginning to converge in productive ways: not only have fans been producing meta longer than fan studies has been a subject, but The Archive of Our Own and Fanlore are maintained by fannish academics and academically minded fans. The Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures’ Symposia section welcomes essays from fans writing outside the academy, some of whom choose to employ their fannish pseudonym (see e.g. zvi LikesTv 2009, Versaphile 2011). Nonetheless, I want to argue that as academics situated within institutions, we have a responsibility of transparency and to the fans whose works we quote and whose subcultures we are sometimes guests in. This perspective has developed over the duration of my PhD research (Fathallah 2013), and its adaptation into a monograph on fanfic (Fathallah forthcoming)
Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Judith Kerman
No full textPoet and author Judith Kerman talks about her experience as a Fulbright scholar in the Dominican Republic, her work translating poems by Cuban poet Dulce Mar\ueda Loynaz, learning Spanish, translating poems from Spanish, and her book "Retrofitting Blade Runner". Kerman is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
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