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Journal of Fandom Studies 7.1 is now available

Intellect is excited to announce that the Journal of Fandom Studies 7.1 is now available!

Special Issue: ‘Fan Studies, Fandom, Disability and the Classroom’

For more information about the journal and issue, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-fandom-studies

Aims & Scope

Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated, peer-reviewed publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across a variety of media. We focus on the critical exploration, within a wide range of disciplines and fan cultures, of issues surrounding production and consumption of popular media (including film, music, television, sports and gaming).

Issue 7.1

Editorial

Human activity: Fan studies, fandom, disability and the classroom

KATHERINE ANDERSON HOWELL

Articles

Nervous laughter: Comedy, disabilities and the reconstitution of space

DANIEL NEVÁREZ ARAÚJO

Purple healing rays and paralysis: Intersections of disability and gender theory in comics

PETER CULLEN BRYAN

‘All dwarfs are bastards’: Game of Thrones as disability studies pedagogy

TANYA N. COOK

Breaking Bad and disabilities: Neo-liberalism, crip studies and critiques of ableism in the classroom