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oapen-20.500.12657-794072023-11-16T16:14:45Z Killer Fandom Fathallah, Judith Popular culture;Media studies;True crime: serial killers and murderers bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BT True stories::BTC True crime bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCA Popular culture bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us. 2023-11-08T12:59:17Z 2023-11-08T12:59:17Z 2023 book 9781951399368 9781951399252 9781951399245 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/79407 eng Media Manifold Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International fathallah-killer-fandom-2023.pdf https://www.mediastudies.press/killer-fandom mediastudies.press 10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120 10.32376/3f8575cb.c2702120 64e0d223-5f1a-4b47-8420-5c9602f55a59 9f66fd3d-0360-4671-abc3-429ac1cd1ae1 9781951399368 9781951399252 9781951399245 2 259 Pilot University OA Fund 2023-2024 - Books Lancaster University open access
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Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us.
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