If it's a movement, it's limited, with a finite purpose and structure and methodology
Absolutely! And with limited possibilities for expression. There are frustratingly few references - let alone sustained discussions to vids in academic literature. You'd think that if fandom was going to be framed as this anarcha-feminist creative utopia, theorists would be all over the practices that wander up to the source material and actually take it.
But no: it's all about writing.
(But then: I don't know if writing in, like, a hyperdiegetic Derridean frame has less of a material connection to a broadcast episode than does the manipulation of a digital file. I want my supervisor back from vacation so I can ask her. I don't want to have to research copyright law on stealing pictures vs. stealing ideas.)
18000 words later I have confidence in why it's "fan culture". (I think - I think - that cultures circulate within societies. Maybe. Eff it anyway, sometimes I hate being interdisciplinary.)
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this matters, this does matter, this totally matters (*rocks back and forth*)
Date: 2010-06-01 02:22 am (UTC)If it's a movement, it's limited, with a finite purpose and structure and methodology
Absolutely! And with limited possibilities for expression. There are frustratingly few references - let alone sustained discussions to vids in academic literature. You'd think that if fandom was going to be framed as this anarcha-feminist creative utopia, theorists would be all over the practices that wander up to the source material and actually take it.
But no: it's all about writing.
(But then: I don't know if writing in, like, a hyperdiegetic Derridean frame has less of a material connection to a broadcast episode than does the manipulation of a digital file. I want my supervisor back from vacation so I can ask her. I don't want to have to research copyright law on stealing pictures vs. stealing ideas.)
18000 words later I have confidence in why it's "fan culture". (I think - I think - that cultures circulate within societies. Maybe. Eff it anyway, sometimes I hate being interdisciplinary.)