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Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Fandom Studies 7.2 is now available!

Special Issue: ‘Fandom and the Life Course’

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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 7.2

Editorial

Introduction: Fandom from cradle to grave? 

MATT HILLS 

Articles

Finding the child fan: A case for studying children in fandom studies 

KYRA HUNTING

Play moods across the life course in SKAM fandom 

LINE NYBRO PETERSEN AND VILDE SCHANKE SUNDET

Celebrating nostalgia or critiquing naivety: Reading pop music reunions through discourses of the fan life course 

SIMONE DRIESSEN

When the Pet Shop Boys were ‘imperial’: Fans’ self-ageing and the neoliberal life course of ‘successful’ text-ageing 

MATT HILLS

Destabilization, adaptation and the long-term fan object: The search for continuity in later-life sports fandom 

JOSEPH ANDREW SMITH

Til death do us part? Fandom and the US death system 

C. LEE HARRINGTON