Millennial fandom : television audiences in the transmedia age /
Stein, Louisa Ellen,
Millennial fandom : television audiences in the transmedia age / Louisa Ellen Stein. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Millennial hope. Glee and the hopeful collective -- Destabilizing the millennial collective -- Niche meets mainstream: from fandom to gleekdom -- Millennial noir. Mapping and marketing millennial noir -- The attack of the filles fatales -- Millennial noir: an invitation to transgress -- Millennial tansformation. Misha Collins and the power of decentered authorship -- Collective authorship and the culture of feels -- Conclusion: calling all fandoms.
"In an ambitious study encompassing a wide range of media texts, including popular television series like 'Kyle XY, ' 'Glee.' 'Gossip Girl, ' 'Veronica Mars, ' and 'Pretty Little Liars, ' and online works like 'The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, ' as well as fan texts from blog posts and tweets to remix videos, YouTube posts, and image-sharing streams, author Louisa Ellen Stein traces the circulation of the contradictory tropes of millennial hope and millennial noir. Looking at what millennials do with digital technology demonstrates the molding impact of commercial representations and at the same time reveals how millennials are undermining, negotiating, and changing those narratives"--Page 4 of cover
9781609383565
Generation Y.
Fans (Persons)--Social aspects.
Television viewers--Social aspects.
Electronic Books.
PN1992 / .M555 2015
Millennial fandom : television audiences in the transmedia age / Louisa Ellen Stein. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Millennial hope. Glee and the hopeful collective -- Destabilizing the millennial collective -- Niche meets mainstream: from fandom to gleekdom -- Millennial noir. Mapping and marketing millennial noir -- The attack of the filles fatales -- Millennial noir: an invitation to transgress -- Millennial tansformation. Misha Collins and the power of decentered authorship -- Collective authorship and the culture of feels -- Conclusion: calling all fandoms.
"In an ambitious study encompassing a wide range of media texts, including popular television series like 'Kyle XY, ' 'Glee.' 'Gossip Girl, ' 'Veronica Mars, ' and 'Pretty Little Liars, ' and online works like 'The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, ' as well as fan texts from blog posts and tweets to remix videos, YouTube posts, and image-sharing streams, author Louisa Ellen Stein traces the circulation of the contradictory tropes of millennial hope and millennial noir. Looking at what millennials do with digital technology demonstrates the molding impact of commercial representations and at the same time reveals how millennials are undermining, negotiating, and changing those narratives"--Page 4 of cover
9781609383565
Generation Y.
Fans (Persons)--Social aspects.
Television viewers--Social aspects.
Electronic Books.
PN1992 / .M555 2015