Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet

a useful and thought provoking additionSFRA Review; a worthwhile additionJournal of the Fantastic in the Arts; Innovative explorations of fandom and new media...marvelous...a much-needed record of developments in contemporary fan practices. Anyone wanting to learn more about media fandomwhere its come from and what it means todaywill need a copyMatt Hills, author of Fan Cultures and How To Do Things With Cultural Theory; What is especially impressive here is the focus on collaboration or collective story telling. The essays speak to how fan authors relate to the inspiring texts and their authors, how they deal with issues of intellectual property, how they fit within larger literary traditions, how fan authors deal with both canon and fanon, and how fan authors interact with each other in terms of collaborative authorship. This book gets me excited about the whole field all over again. I learned something fresh and interesting in every chapterHenry Jenkins, author of Textual Poachers

Karen Hellekson is a freelance copy editor and independent scholar. She is coeditor of the open access journal Transformative Works and Cultures and of the quarterly SFRA Review. She lives in Maine. Kristina Busse teaches at the University of South Alabama and has published a variety of essays on fan fiction and fan culture. She is the founding coeditor of Transformative Works and Cultures.

Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Work in Progress Fan Fiction: A Bibliography of Critical Works A Brief History of Media Fandom PART IDIFFERENT APPROACHES: FAN FICTION IN CONTEXT 1. Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction 2. One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance 3. Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream PART IICHARACTERS, STYLE, TEXT: FAN FICTION AS LITERATURE 4. The Toy Soldiers from Leeds: The Slash Palimpsest 5. Construction of Fan Fiction Character Through Narrative 6. Keeping Promises to Queer Children: Making Space (for Mary Sue) at Hogwarts PART IIIREADERS AND WRITERS: FAN FICTION AND COMMUNITY 7. The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities 8. Cunning Linguists: The Bisexual Erotics of Words/ Silence/Flesh 9. My Life Is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances PART IVMEDIUM AND MESSAGE: FAN FICTION AND BEYOND 10. Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance 11. This Dratted Thing: Fannish Storytelling Through New Media 12. From Shooting Monsters to Shooting Movies: Machinima and the Transformative Play of Video Game Fan Culture Contributors Index