234 pages, 6 x 9
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Paperback
Release Date:16 Oct 2020
ISBN:9781496830470
Hardcover
Release Date:16 Oct 2020
ISBN:9781496830463
A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy
The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises
By Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill
University Press of Mississippi
., and contestation over authorial voices in the DC cinematic universe, as well as broader conversations about toxic masculinity and sexual harassment in Hollywood.
The fan and auteur axes that Salter and Stanfill introduce as a taxonomic strategy will prove a useful tool for understanding and analyzing how elements of the role might be used by a variety of author-figures as legitimating strategies.
A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy is a vital tool for understanding our current fan-centric media landscape. The authors thoroughly explore the emergent authorial archetype of the fanboy auteur, being mindful of the industrial, textual, and cultural conditions that have facilitated its rise to power. Exhaustively researching the ways in which these approachable author figures are imagined and received, the authors are especially attentive to the ways in which gender and race shape the fanboy auteur’s ability to claim status and authority. Thisis essential reading for fan scholars and will be highly accessible and productive for those working within film studies, television studies, and industry studies.
In A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy, Salter and Stanfill build on concepts to develop a series of in-depth case studies, exploring some of the leading ‘auteurs’ in cult cinema and television, representing a range of different models of what authorship looks like in contemporary convergence culture. This important and timely book will be essential reading for people in fandom studies as well as those invested in feminist criticism and contemporary media authorship. The book represents an important intervention into debates about authorship, linking male creators and their fans into larger debates about intersectionality and male privilege, and providing some context for current media discussions of toxic male fandom.
. and coauthor of .is assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Texts and Technology Program and the Department of English at University of Central Florida. Stanfill’s work has appeared in ., and Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans.