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Hills, Matthew. Fan Cultures. Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication. Routledge, 2002. 224pp. ISBN 0415240255 (paper).

Preface ... ix
Acknowledgments ... xvii

Introduction: Who's Who:? Academics, fans, scholar-fans and fan-scholars ... 1

Part I: Approaching fan cultures ... 25
  1. Fan cultures between ... 27
  2. Fan cultures between ... 46
  3. Fan cultures between ... 65
  4. Fan cultures between ... 90
Part II: Theorising cult media ... 115
  1. Fandom between cult and culture ... 117
  2. Media cults: between the 'textual' and 'extratextual' ... 131
  3. Cult geographies: between the 'textual' and the 'spatial' ... 144
  4. Cult bodies: between the 'self' and the 'other' ... 158
Conclusion: new media, new fandoms, new theoretical approaches? ... 172

Notes ... 185
Bibliography ... 207
Index ... 232



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