Description
The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory.
Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott in which Jenkins reflects upon changes in the field since the original release of Textual Poachers. A study guide by Louisa Stein helps provides instructors with suggestions for the way Textual Poachers can be used in the contemporary classroom, and study questions encourage students to consider fan cultures in relation to consumer capitalism, genre, gender, sexuality, and more.
Table of Contents
20th Anniversary Introductionary Interview between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott Introduction (1992) 1. "Get a Life!": Fans, Poachers, Nomads 2. How Texts become Real 3. Fan Critics 4. "It's Not a Fairy Tale Anymore": Gender, Genre, Beauty and the Best 5. Scribbling in the Margins: Fan Readers/Fan Writers 6. "Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk": Slash and the Fan-Writing Community 7. "Layers of Meaning": Fan Music Video and the Poetics of Poaching 8. "Strangers No More, We Sing": Filk Music, Folk Culture, and the Fan Community 9. Conclusion: "In My Weekend-Only World...": Reconsidering Fandom 10. Study Guide by Louisa Stein
