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Journal of Fandom Studies 9.1 is out now! Special Issue
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

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’

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

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