
Journal of Fandom Studies 9.1 is out now! Special Issue
Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Fandom Studies 9.1 is out now!
Special Issue: ‘Archives and Special Collections’
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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-fandom-studies
Aims and 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).
Call for Papers
The editors welcome general papers (6000–9000 words), interviews and book reviews (800–1200 words) as well as suggestions for thematic issues.
Potential topics include:
- Ethics of fan studies
- Historical perspectives on fan studies
- Gender
- Methodology
- Consumer/producer interactions
- Archival work (using collections such as the AMPAS collection of fan letters, fanzine collections or online archives)
- Competing histories of fan practices and fan studies
- Analyses of specific fandoms (i.e. Buffy, Supernatural, Justin Bieber, True Blood, etc.)
- Fan studies theory/cultural studies theory.
Issue 9.1
Editorial
Editors’ introduction: Archives and special collections and fan studies
CAIT COKER
Articles
‘Does anybody have that fic…?’: The fannish reclamation of the circulating library
ALEX XANTHOUDAKIS
(Don’t) just screenshot it: Ethics of archiving fan misbehaviours
RENEE ANN DROUIN
From the hobbit-hole: The Lord of the Rings fanzines of the 1960s and archival limitations
SARAH FORD
Brogdon, Blackness and the BSI: Archiving race in Sherlock Holmes fandom
ANN MCCLELLAN
Fannish boy: Examining blues fandom through British music periodicals
ALAN MUNSHOWER AND GREG JOHNSON
Archives and fan studies: An introductory guide
JEREMY BRETT
Institutional collection profiles
KATE BROMBLEY, STEPHEN AMMIDOWN, ANDREW LIPPERT, WILLIAM FLISS AND JEREMY BRETT