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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       Subjects     San Diego Comic-Con.     Comic book fans.     Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects.     Comic books, strips, etc -- Marketing.     Popular culture -- United States.     Browse Catalog       by title:      It happens at Comic-...         MARC Display

It happens at Comic-Con : ethnographic essays on a pop culture phenomenon / edited by Ben Bolling and Matthew J. Smith ; foreword by Matthew Pustz ; afterword by Randy Duncan and Peter M. Coogan. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014] Subjects San Diego Comic-Con.   Comic book fans.   Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects.   Comic books, strips, etc -- Marketing.   Popular culture -- United States. ISBN:  9780786476947 (softcover ; acid-free paper) 078647694X (softcover ; acid-free paper) Description:  viii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents:  Foreword: visiting Comic-Con, revisiting comic book culture / Matthew Pustz -- Introduction: the pilgrimage to comic-con / Matthew J. Smith -- Part I. Identity and play at Comic-Con. Actualized fantasy at Comic-Con and the confessions of a "sad cosplayer" / Kane Anderson ; "Love to mess with minds": en(gendering) identities through crossplay / Catherine Thomas -- Part II. Gendered fandom. Queer conversations: LGBTIQ consumer/producer interface at Comic-Con and the intransitive writing of comics / Ben Bolling ; Soaring to new heights: cute, tough, geek girls and post-feminist discourse / Lisa H. Kaplan ; You don't own me: the representation of Twilight fandom / Melissa Miller -- Part III. Negotiating fandom through communicative practice. "What can you tell me about (blank)?": exploring the social rules of fan talk / Brian Swafford ; Facing front true believers: panels as exercises in image management / Jon Judy and Brad Palmer ; "You are not a true geek, I am": the role of communicative aggression in geek culture / Chad Wertley -- Part IV. Technology and participation. "Ask me about my zombie plan": fan dissection and female participation in RedvsBlue / Cameron Catalfu ; Where are the web shows? / Tanya D. Zuk -- Part V. Attending Con. What are we waiting for?: a look at line culture / Regina C. Gasser ; Tense proximities between CCI's comic book consumers, fans and creators / Christian Sager ; The volunteer experience: meaning, motivation and role conflict in a temporary organization / Michael J. Tornes -- Afterword / Randy Duncan and Peter M. Coogan -- References -- About the contributors -- Index. Requests:  0 Summary:  "This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con international, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 150,000 each summer"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 741.5973 It Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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