Week 7 finding personal meaning in media
April 2 Screening: Supernatural Changing Channels (5.8); In Real Life (Documentary on The Bronze)
April 4
- Textual Poachers Chapter 2 How Texts Become Real
- Michel de Certeau Practices of Everyday Life (Audience Studies Reader)
- Nancy Baym, “Interpreting Soap Operas and Creating Communities in a Computer Mediated World.”
Skype visit with Kristina Busse
Week 8 Audience Discontent
April 9 Supernatural 5.9 “The Real Ghostbusters,” Beauty and the Beast old & new
April 10
- TP Chapters 3 “Fan Critics”
- TP Chapter 4 “It’s not a fairy tale anymore: Genre, Gender, and Beauty and the Beast.”
- Johnson, Derek. “Fan-tagonism: Factions, Institutions, and Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom.”
Movie Queen Local History Presentation
Week 9 The Politics of Audience Authorship
April 16 Buffy “Storyteller”; Supernatural 6.15 “The French Mistake”; Selected Fan Works
April 17
- TP Chapters 5 Scribbling in the Margins
- TP Chapter 6 Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk
- Stein, Louisa and Kristina Busse. “Limit Play: Fan Authorship between Source Text, Intertext, and Context.”
- Recommended: Mittell, Jason. “Sites of Participation: Wiki Fandom and the Case of Lostpedia.”
Week 10 Transformative Work
April 23: Fan produced web series & vids, The Guild
April 24
- Tushnet, Rebecca. “User-Generated Discontent: Transformation in Practice.”
- TP Chapters 7 Layers of Meaning
- Lothian, Alexis. “Archival anarchies: Online fandom, subcultural conservation, and the transformative work of digital ephemera .”
Tentative guest visit from Alexis Lothian