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Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins

maryreay's review against another edition

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informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

roxanamalinachirila's review

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4.0

One of the big and important books on fans and fandom, containing things such as a study in "Beauty and the Beast", fan songs, and the everlasting and ever-asked question: "Why do women write homosexual love stories?"

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noelrk's review

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3.0

An important book for cultural studies and fan culture, Textual Poachers provides an excellent primer and introduction to looking at fandom and its general practices.[return][return]While the book is now rather dated in both its examples (shows mentioned are all from the 1980s and very early 90s) and some of its subjects (filk music), the book is highly engaging and accessible, even for non-media scholars are just interested in the subject, or want to learn more about their hobby.

its_literature's review against another edition

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funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

better than fandom for my thesis purposes, very interesting theoretical treatises on fan culture and fan studies. very useful for referencing other material, namely bordieu.

laurie_p's review

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4.0

Outdated but still incredibly valuable for anyone interested in fandom culture.

onceandfuturelaura's review

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3.0

I should have read this book 20ish years ago, back when I was slightly defensive (based on the mockery and cultural condemnation) about being a science fiction fan. Back in the day, it would have been revelatory and affirming. A professor, taking fandom seriously! Taking fans seriously! Who went to cons and listened to filk and read fan fiction! And talks about fandom in terms of Bakhtin, Barthes, and Benjamin!

There’s still a lot of good in the text. Great exploration of how different fan communities operate; how different groups are characterized by different modes of reading and appropriation; of the evolution of slash; and of filk. I didn’t realize until I read this book that A Very Scary Solstice is part of a rich tradition that sometimes involved all night sing-alongs in moving cargo elevators.

Some things haven’t aged so well. The discussion of slash was suffused by a gender essentialism that got my hackles up. But he gets mad points for hinting that Wesley Crusher might grow on us (95).

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5.0

Easily the best book on fanfiction that I read during the course of my research. It's equal parts well-written, interesting, and informative, covering the history of the word fan, fandom, and fan works.

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4.0

7,5/10

dumpling8tang's review against another edition

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5.0

也是一本读书会书目,是我在书店并不会拿起来翻阅的宝藏。
一直以来对同人的了解都是从仅有的耽美小说展开的,夹杂着少许的cp混剪视频。这本书让我了解到同人的由来,甚至是NASA作为logo流行的原因。一直在感慨00后们可能大多数并不知道录音机,但录像单对我来说也是“传说”中的存在,更不要提使用在现代科技的对比下显得过时的设备来完成视频编辑。用爱发电原来是这么早以前就已经开始的事情。
中文译本的译者注非常提升阅读体验,即使没有看过作者举例提到的所有电视剧,依然能够明白想要表达的观点。因为没有相关专业基础,这本教科书科普了简单的专业知识,但有些难啃,推荐给有兴趣了解媒体的伙伴!
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一些书中的highlight
Spoiler这些细节尽管无疑是精确的, 却极端具有选择性, 呈现出的粉丝群体也因此扭曲不堪,粉丝文化则被粉饰修改, 直至合乎《新闻周刊》作者和读者固有的刻板印象。

其最早使 用场合之一,是男性批评家贬低女性剧迷,他们认为所谓的“ 日场女孩"(Matinee
IGirls)[Bl,到剧院里更多是来崇拜演员而非欣赏戏剧的(Auster,1989)。

粉丝依然是当代文化中见不得人的丑陋范畴, 是嘲讽与不安、 恐惧与欲望的多重对象。 无论是被看作宗教狂热分子、 精神变态 的杀手、 神经质的妄想狂或者情欲贲张的"骨肉皮", 粉丝一直被视为"疯子” 或 者崇拜错误对象的狂热者, 他们的兴趣都从根本上迥异于 “ 正常 “ 人的文化体验, 而他们的精神状态也危险地远离现实生活。

对粉丝的刻板印象更多地等同千
主导文化等级秩序(dominant cultural hierarchies)受到侵犯时的恐惧心理的投射。

永远存在一种更加极端的“他者”, 以证明自己文化选择的相对正常性。

读者绝非作者......他们是旅行者;他们在属于别人的土地之间迁徙, 就像游 牧民族在并非自己写就的田野上一路盗猎过去, 掠夺埃及的财富以获得 自我的享
受。

被挪用的符号, 如汜字和安全别针等, 其意义不在 其本身固有含义, 而在千其表达反抗主流文化这 一使用逻辑。

读者不是作者, 也不会把自己想成作者。 他在文本中创造出一些并非原意的东西。 他将文本从它们或已不可知或无关紧要的根源中分离出来。 他将它们的碎片黏合起来, 创造出一些未知的东西。

电视媒体意识到并鼓励一心多用和断断续续的观看行为

重读的书不再是我们第一次阅读的那本书;它同时是 “ 原来的那本和全新的一本 ” 。


小学女生被老师要求读一本男孩的书,十多岁的姑娘被她约会的男友拽去看他最喜欢的杀人狂恐怖电影, 家庭主妇被迫 看她丈夫喜欢的警匪剧而非她自己的肥皂剧,尽管如此,她们仍然能够找到重塑 叙事的方式, 起码在想象中。

背景重设(Recontextualization) 粉丝们经常写一些小短篇, 描写细节场景("遗失的场景")以填入广播内容的空缺中, 为人物举止提供更多解释

扩展原文本时间段(Expanding theSeriesTimeline)

重聚焦(Refocalization) 从原先节目的中心人物身上转开视线, 去关注次要 角色, 包括占据的剧情时间较少的女性人物和少数族裔。

道德重置(Moral Realignment) 也许最极端的重聚焦的例子就是逆转或 者质疑原始文本中的道德观,将原来文本中的恶棍变成同人小说叙事中的主人公。

类型转换(Genre Shifting) 同人故事至少转换了情节中动作戏和角色塑造的平衡, 将 主要精力投射于定义人物关系的瞬间, 而非仅仅将这些时刻作为背景或者主要情 节的动机。

混合同人(Cross Overs) 打破了文本之间的界限, 也打破了类型之间的界限

人物错置(Character Dislocation) 打破了原剧的模式, 将原剧中的人物穿越 至不同的历史或神话背景之下

隐匿真正的 身份就是游戏的 一部分, 因为阅读和 写作耽美小说就包含 与传统女性角色决裂的乐趣。

同人歌曲从来不是封闭的或是完 全完成的, 它是开放的, 流动的;相较个人表达而言, 更应该说是集体的财产。