DJ wrote: > Can you post the citation for the Jenkins B&B article? (Is this the same > Jenkins who wrote the piece on ST fandom?) And, Andrea, are you interested > in QL parodies? I've downloaded a couple from ST bulletin boards (you > can tell what the crossover is, of course!) > > Do _either_ of you (or anyone else) have a current address for DATAZINE or > another good source for info on fanzines? > > And, to whomever asked about a good work on media fandom, I've just started > Camille Bacon-Smith's ENTERPRISING WOMEN: TELEVISION FANDOM AND THE CREATION > OF POPULAR MYTH (U of PA, 1992) and it appears to give background on media > fandom and a good bibliography on related articles. --DJ > Bitnet: DJOHNSON@WCU Andrea, please keep posting to the list! I would also like a current address for _Datazine_. Is it still being published? DJ - have you tried Bill Hupe's list of fanzines? Andrea (I think) mentioned the tendency in cross-overs to use QL to fix Catherine's death in B&B. Do a lot of zines focus on fixing problems within their series? I ask because I've noticed that Blake's 7 zines seem preoccupied with circumventing the deaths of Cally and Blake (but not Gan - probably because he died on screen and the others disappeared), and finding a way for everyone (or at least Avon, Vila, and Blake) to survive the massacre in the series finale... ____________________________________________ Andrea wrote (in reply to Cal): >I guess this is where I tell my history.... > >I started the project as an attempt to see if some of the major >paradigms of popular culture and pleasure held up when applied to a >specific group of viewers. (Adorno, Mulvey, Foucault, et al) I am >unsatisfied with the applicability of this material when it concerns >fandom, especially fandoms that create other products. > >That's what started this project since then.... > >I've been reading, Constance Penley on Slash, Henry Jenkins on Slash >and fan communites. I even recently scored a copy of Lisa Lewis's (editor) >book on Fans (not yet available this was a preview copy a prof had). Please post the cite for Jenkins B&B article! Someone else also asked and I second the request. What is the title of Lewis's book and when will it be available? >I've been reading Cavell to get an idea of what is an audience, star >etc. and I have been attempting to define what is a fan as well as >what separates a fan who creates vs one who just watches. I've been >reading many of the essays from Cultural Studies (ed. by Grossberg, >Treichler, and Nelson) and I've been talking to everyone who is >doing work on this to see if any of us is coming up with anything. Who have you talked to? Are a lot of people researching fandom and fanzines? >I'm pretty sure that a good deal of what I have read, is part of the >list that ran around during the fan/slash conversation a month ago. > >If you want the authors specifically from the collections I >mentioned I could compile a list, it might just be easier for me to >post my reading list and go from there. Yes, please post your reading list! I'm not researching the topic, BTW, I'm just very interested in it. That's at least 5 of us, so please keep posting information to the list. Sue