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Fan Fiction Week

It's Fan Fiction Week over at Joel Stickleys Blog "How To Write Badly Well". So far, he gave advice like "Choose unusual inspirations" and "Put your own twist on things".

ABC No Rio Zine Library braucht Geld

"The ABC No Rio Zine Library is one of the best keep secrets around. Located in ABC No Rio, New York City's Lower East Side radical community center, the library houses over 12,000 items. While the focus of the collection is fanzines, it also contains thousands of publications from anarchist, left anti-authoritarian and grassroots community groups. It is one of the very few places in the US (alongside KSL and the Labadie collection) where anarchist print publications from 1970 to the present are actively collected and made accessible to the public. All of the librarians are volunteers, and everything in the library has been donated - the library has no budget. But it desperately needs to purchase preservation materials to help protect the collection; specifically acid-free boxes and plastic sleeves for the periodicals. So we're holding a party to help raise money".

Hinweis aus Infoshop via Google Alert.

Kritik etablierter Autoren an Fan Fiction

"!It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset", konstatiert Catherynne M. Valente in ihrem Artikel Is Fan Fiction Really So Wrong? auf io9.com.

poisoning lessons from star trek

Das NCBI ROFL-Weblog grub den Aufsatz "The history of poisoning in the future: lessons from Star Trek" aus. Aus dem Abstract: "The Arts are replete with examples of presaged events of the future. Since a unique glimpse of the 23rd century is afforded by the television series Star Trek, a survey of the toxin-related events as chronicled by the crew of the USS Starship Enterprise may provide insight to prepare toxicologists for the future". Zum Nachlesen in Pubmed. - Siehe dazu auch den Eintrag "Poison" im Memory Alpha Star Trek Wiki.

Fanfiction issue of "The Escapist"

"I have a love/hate relationship with fanfiction. On the one hand, it makes my skin crawl. Especially some of the seedier stuff, the type where you just know some poor, deranged soul has been privately fantasizing about Princess Leia and, for some unfathomable reason, has decided to share those fantasies with the world. On the other hand, it can be fun - and fruitful - to borrow characters from your favorite movie/TV show/game and make them do your bidding (just so long as you're not making them hump). After all, without fanfiction, the internet would be pretty much content-free (save for content of people humping)", schreibt Russ Pitts in seinem Editorial zum Fan Fiction-Themenheft der Zeitschrift "The Escapist". Darin sind folgende Artikel enthalten:

"From Fanfiction to Just Fiction" / Vanessa Cohen

"Corporate Fanfic" / Dillon Sinnott

"Interviews With the Fandom" / Peter Parrish

"Hooking Up in Hyperspace" / Brendan Main

"What if Spock and Kirk Got It On?" / Greg Tito

Some miscellaneous texts on SF / Fan language

Patricia Byrd: "Star Trek Lives: Trekker Slang". In: American Speech 53 (1978) 1, S. 52-58

Bruce Southard: "The Language of Science-Fiction Fan Magazines". In: American Speech 57 (1982) 1, S. 19-31

Oliver Siebold: Wort - Genre - Text. Wortneubildungen in der Science Fiction. Tübingen: Narr 2000

Katrina Blasingame: "'I Can't Believe I'm Saying It Twice in the Same Century... but 'Duh...' The Evolution of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sub-Culture Language through the Medium of Fanfiction". In: Slayage 20 (2006) [from the Slayage special issue "Beyond Slayer Slang: Pragmatics, Discourse, and Style", edited by Michael Adams, who wrote "Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon" by the way]

Roberta Rogow: FutureSpeak. A fan's guide to the language of science fiction. New York: Paragon House 1991

Philip Nel: "Harry's language. Taking issue with words. You say 'jelly,' I say 'jell-o'? Harry Potter and the transfiguration of language". In: Lana A. Whited (ed.): The ivory tower and Harry Potter. Perspectives on a literary phenomenon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press 2002

Mark Bould: "Language and linguistics". In: The Routledge companion to science fiction. London / New York: Routledge 2009

Jeff Prucher: Brave new words. The Oxford dictionary of science fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007

Heather Urbanski: Writing and the digital generation. Essays on new media rhetoric. Jefferson: McFarland 2010

"majority of slashers identify as queer"

Interessante Gedanken und Untersuchung über die Selbsteinschätzung der sexuellen Orientierung von Slash-Schreiberinnen bei Fandom Research und Melannen.

Media Fandom Through a Lens, Darkly

Gerade in der Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database entdeckt: die PhD Thesis "Speculative Fiction and Media Fandom Through a Lens, Darkly" von Andre Carrington, verfasst 2009 an der New York University. Subjects: motion pictures; fans; television; comics; race; fan fiction. Auf der Website der Uni ist dazu noch folgendes zu lesen: "His dissertation, 'Speculative Fiction and Media Fandom Through a Lens, Darkly,' investigates blackness in paraliterary genres of film, television, performance, comics, and print fiction in the 20th century through their fan cultures".

Who invented fanfic?

"Who invented fanfic?", fragt Yonmei im Feminist SF-Blog. Mehr dazu auch im Eintrag "How John Scalzi invented fanfic" auf geekfeminism.org.

Neuerwerbungen

Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Beatrice Michaelis (Hrsg.): Quer durch die Geisteswissenschaften. Perspektiven der Queer Theory. Querverlag 2005 (enthät den Artikel "The old man in Dax's body. Queer readings of Star Trek" von Svenja Derichs)

Michael Hemmingson: Star Trek: A post-structural critique of the original series. Borgo Press 2009 (inklusive Kapitel über Fan Fiction)

McClain: "fan magazines, narrative, and spectatorship"

Entdeckt in der Routledge-Zeitschrift New Review of Film and Television Studies, Ausgabe 7 (2009) 4: "Film-fiction: fan magazines, narrative, and spectatorship in American cinema of the 1910s" von William McClain. Abstract: "The presentation of film texts as short stories in early motion picture fan magazines has long been treated as a sort of antiquarian curio, and has usually been discussed as simple synopsis of the films in question. In fact, close examination of these 'fictionalizations' and comparison across magazines and between fictionalized and film text suggests that these stories do not simply re-present or expand on the films - they transform them into an aesthetic distinct from that of the transitional film era and more in line with classical Hollywood norms. In doing so, they suggest that films were not treated by readers as 'master texts' from which other forms merely derived, but as contingent incarnations of a story world presumed to be behind the films. In doing so, they suggest that readers of early fan magazines may have had a similar relationship to filmic and literary texts, and a similar understanding of fandom, as has been found in studies of more contemporary fan cultures" ((c) Taylor & Francis).

zwei DVDs hereingeflattert

Habe mir zwei Filme über Star Trek-Fans gekauft und hoffe, sie mal mit der fedsig-Gruppe anschauen zu können:

Trekkies. A hilarious look at the universe's most fervent fans, Regie Roger Nygard.

Free Enterprise, Regie Robert Meyer Burnett.

Probezugang zu Media Journals

Sage Publishing bietet gerade einen kostenlosen Probezugang zu allen Journals im Bereich "Communication and Media Studies" - da ist natürlich jede Menge für mich dabei, z.B. die Zeitschriften "Television & New Media", "Games and Culture", "Media, Culture & Society", "New Media & Society" und "Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies".
Ich bin zum Beispiel auf den Artikel "Cyber-Slaying Media Fans: Code, Digital Poaching, and Corporate Control of the Internet" von Mia Consalvo gestoßen. Abstract: "This article examines media fans' Web sites devoted to Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to determine how the code of the Internet allows fans some creative control over media artifacts of interest to them and how such actions pose a challenge to media corporations and their copyrights. However, this challenge is also limited by the changing code of the Internet, at varying levels, as corporations seek to change open code to closed-proprietary code and limit such actions. Thus, this article explores the resistances of fans to corporate actions and how the code of the Internet is gradually changing into a system more conducive to corporate capitalism than community creation or any other transformative space".
Consalvo hat 1999 ihren PhD in Mass Communications mit der Arbeit "The Best of Both Worlds? Exploring Bodies, Technologies, Gender and the Borg of Star Trek" geschrieben und 2007 das Buch "Cheating. Gaining Advantage in Videogames" bei MIT Press veröffentlicht.

The Borg as Vampire

Gerade entdeckt über die Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database: Justin Everett: "The Borg as Vampire in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) and Star Trek: Frist Contact (1996)". In: John E. Browning / Caroline J. Picart (Hrsg.): Dracula, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms. Essays on Gender, Race and Culture. Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009, S. 77 - 92

Overload

Ich hab gerade drei neue RSS-Feeds abonniert: "ephemeral traces", das Weblog von Kristina Busse; Fandom Research, "an index of (f)anthropological surveys, studies, and science"; und das Weblog von Karen Hellekson. Wäre wohl an der Zeit, das manische Sammeln von Sekundärliteratur - das mir als Bibliothekarin halt auch im Blut liegt - zu reduzieren und endlich mit dem Schreiben des theoretischen Teils zu beginnen, für den ich schon weit mehr Material habe als notwendig. Irgendwann muss man stopp sagen. Witzig, dass ich das, was ich meinen Diplomandinnen und Bachelorarbeitsschreibenden immer predige, selber so gar nicht befolgen kann ;-)

Cinema Journal mit Fandom-Schwerpunkt

Wie ich einem Hinweis aus der Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database entnehme, hat die Ausgabe 48 (2009) 4 der Zeitschrift Cinema Journal als Schwerpunkt "Fandom and Feminism: Gender and the Politics of Fan Production". Folgende Beiträge sind enthalten:

Introduction / Kristina Busse

A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness / Francesca Coppa

A Fannish Field of Value: Online Fan Gift Culture / Karen Hellekson

Should Fan Fiction Be Free? / Abigail De Kosnik

User-Penetrated Content: Fan Video in the Age of Convergence / Julie Levin Russo

Living in a Den of Thieves: Fan Video and Digital Challenges to Ownership / Alexis Lothian

Fanaktivität = Einschaltquoten

Eine Studie von fanhistory.com stellt einen Zusammenhang zwischen Fanaktivität und Einschaltquoten einer Serie her: "Fan fiction is a really popular outlet for fan expression of interest in television shows. The stories are creative, explore plot lines in the show and, according to many fans, help market a series in a positive way. Fans often argue that their activities mirror larger interest in a show, and that producers should pay more attention to them and cater to their fannish interests as the example provided seems to demonstrate. (...) The results confirmed what many fans already suspected: Levels of fan activity, specifically in terms of the production of fan fiction, mirrors interest specific episodes of television. Fan fiction can be used to predict Nielsen Ratings". - Quelle: Online PR News vom 25. September 2009.

"The scene that smells of zine spirit"

Jessica Bateman berichtet im Independent vom 25. September unter den Titel "The scene that smells of zine spirit" über Fanzines: "It should have died out with flexi discs and VHS, but now a new generation is embracing the DIY world of the fanzine".

Buchpaket :-)

Bei betterworldbooks (ein US-amerikanischer Buchversand, mit dem ich bisher nur gute Erfahrungen gemacht habe) bestellt und vor wenigen Minuten aus dem Postkastl geholt:

Frances Early, Kathleen Kennedy (Hrsg.): Athena's Daughters. Television's new women warriors. New York: Syracuse University Press 2003 (enthält unter anderem den Aufsatz "Tall, dark and dangerous: Xena, the Quest, and the wielding of sexual violence in Xena on-line fan fiction" von Helen Caudill)

Lincoln Geraghty: Living with Star Trek. American culture and the Star Trek universe. London/New York: I.B. Tauris 2007 (enthält unter anderem den Abschnitt "A network of support: identification and emotion in Star Trek fan letters")