Reviews

Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century by Michael Graves, Susan Orenstein, Kathleen Williams, Owain Gwynne, Bethan Jones, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, Stephen J. Sansweet, Anissa M. Graham, Jennifer C. Garlen, Kent Aardse, Meyrav Koren-Kuik, Kristin M. Barton, Don Tresca, Jeff Thompson

aconfundityofcrows's review

I read "Spellbound" by Don Tresca and "A New Kind of Pandering" by Anissa M. Graham for research for a project. Hopefully I'll have more to say when I am done with said project.

danikaellis's review

3.0

While there are a few interesting essays in here, I found most of them disappointing. They tended to just cover the history of a fandom, without actually trying to make any overarching point. It was the Harry Potter essay that I was most interested in, and therefore most disappointed by. Its ending message seemed to be: "Sexual fan fic... maybe not entirely horrible?"