For many people, fan fiction is as much a part of their reading as commercial literature. Fan fiction websites and archives provide readers with novels, serials, novellas, romantic and erotic stories, non-romantic stories, experimental literature, video and visual art, etc. While fan writers and readers are certainly not exclusively interested in romance, fan writing frequently explores the romantic potential between two characters and fan fiction is often built on romantic foundations. The shift to digital publishing and reading is having a dramatic impact on commercial romance literature. However, what about the kinds of romantic and erotic stories fans produce? How is fan work being affected by the rise in digital publishing? The Fandom Then/Now project is designed to facilitate fan conversations and collect ideas from fans about fan fiction’s past and future.
What do you notice in the data from 2008? What do you think about the intersections between fan fiction and romantic storytelling? Now, in 2015, what has and hasn’t changed about fans’ reading and writing practices?
Please visit the Fandom Then/Now website to look at the project and share your thoughts.
You can also follow the project on Tumblr at fandomthennow.tumblr.com.
Here we go again…
I hope everyone is having a lovely spring!
As the spring semester winds down I’m getting ready to start up another round of fandomthennow posts. I’m going to jump back into posting excerpts from the project website. As in the past, these posts will be made on Tumblr, Twitter, LiveJournal, and Dreamwidth. Please feel free to comment, reblog, and share in any of those spaces.
First, I’m going to repost some important details/background information about the project, just to refresh everyone’s memories.
New course flyers for Reading/Screening Desire fall 2015. [more info]
We are far more concerned with the ways in which television contributes to change than with mapping the obvious ways in which it maintains dominant viewpoints.
Horace NewComb & Paul M. Hirsch, “Television as a Cultural Forum” (1983)
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Counting down the days…
…to the Love Between the Covers sneak preview and Popular Romance Project conference at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., 2/10-2/11!
For more information, check out our events calendar.
If you’re in the DC area, you should be going to this. :)
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Counting down the days…
…to the Love Between the Covers sneak preview and Popular Romance Project conference at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., 2/10-2/11!
For more information, check out our events calendar.
If you’re in the DC area, you should be going to this. :)
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There is an inexorable circularity in the dominant argument that condemns romantic comedy as the most mediocre and repetitive of genres because, since a romantic comedy is a love story with a happy ending, all romantic comedies end the same way. If we accept that there are other dimensions to the genre apart from the happy ending then the recognition of much greater formal and ideological variety will immediately ensue. The ending of the romantic comedy appears to be so highly conventionalised that it seems critically tendentious to draw so much attention to it, overlooking what makes the genre rich, varied and, in sum, culturally important.
Celestino Deleyto, The Secret Life of Romantic Comedies, 2009 (24)