Popular Media Cultures: Fans, Audiences and Paratexts

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Fans and Paratexts....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
“We Put the Media in (Anti)social Media”: Channel 4’s Youth Audiences, Unofficial Archives and the Promotion of Second-Screen Viewing....Pages 17-38
Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics of Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas The Only Way Is Essex and Made in Chelsea....Pages 39-72
“A Reason to Live”: Utopia and Social Change in Star Trek Fan Letters....Pages 73-87
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Victims and Villains: Psychological Themes, Male Stars and Horror Films in the 1940s....Pages 91-109
“I Want to Do Bad Things with You”: The Television Horror Title Sequence....Pages 110-126
Cannibal Holocaust: The Paratextual (Re)construction of History....Pages 127-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
From Angel to Much Ado: Cross-Textual Catharsis, Kinesthetic Empathy and Whedonverse Fandom....Pages 149-163
Location, Location, Location: Citizen-Fan Journalists’ “Set Reporting” and Info-War in the Digital Age....Pages 164-185
Sherlock Holmes, the De Facto Franchise....Pages 186-205
“Cultural Acupuncture”: Fan Activism and the Harry Potter Alliance....Pages 206-229
Afterword: Studying Media with and without Paratexts....Pages 230-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-246