This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to chart new directions for research.
Engaging an impressive array of media texts and formats, and incorporating a variety of methodologies, this collection is designed to survey, complicate, and expand core concerns. This second edition includes 20 new chapters, 11 revised chapters, and 12 reprinted chapters organized into four main sections: Methods, Ethics and Theoretical Approaches; Fan Practices and Platforms; Identities; and Industry and Labor. Each section features a short introduction that discusses the section's scope and contributions, highlights the importance of the section's topic to fan studies, and offers suggestions for further reading.
This collection remains an essential volume for students and scholars interested in fandom and fan studies, popular culture, media studies, and film and television studies.
| ISBN: | 9781032446080 |
| Publication date: | 22nd June 2026 |
| Author: | Melissa A Click, Suzanne Scott |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 466 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions |
| Genres: |
Media studies Social discrimination and social justice Social groups, communities and identities |
This companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of emerging and established fan studies scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to chart new directions for research.
Engaging an impressive array of media texts and formats, and incorporating a variety of methodologies, this collection is designed to survey, complicate, and expand core concerns. This second edition includes 20 new chapters, 11 revised chapters, and 12 reprinted chapters organized into four main sections: Methods, Ethics and Theoretical Approaches; Fan Practices and Platforms; Identities; and Industry and Labor. Each section features a short introduction that discusses the section's scope and contributions, highlights the importance of the section's topic to fan studies, and offers suggestions for further reading.
This collection remains an essential volume for students and scholars interested in fandom and fan studies, popular culture, media studies, and film and television studies.
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom features in the following genres: Popular culture, Media studies: TV and society, Sociology, Media, entertainment, information and communication industries, Literary studies: general, Communication studies
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom was written by Melissa A Click, Suzanne Scott and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom has 466 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions series
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