Fandom culture and The Archers : an everyday story of academic folk

The first academic study of the phenomenon of The Archers fandom from the fans themselves. The fourth instalment in the Academic Archers collection, Fandom Culture and The Archers looks beyond the popular success of the Archers to explore how the program, and the themes it discusses, are used in tea...

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Other Authors Courage, Cara (Editor), Headlam, Nicola (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Subjects
Fans (Persons)
College teachers.
Popular culture in education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781802629699
DOI10.1108/9781802629675
Physical Description1 online resource (272 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On being and doing academic archers / Nicola Headlam and Cara Courage Section One. Practice into Theory: Fandom Informing the Academy
  • Chapter 1. Fans, flouncers, fundamentalists: Understanding online archers fan cultures / Claire Astbury
  • Chapter 2. When the script hits the fan: Why archers fans stop listening (and why they can't completely keep away) / Sarah Kate Merry
  • Chapter 3. Archers fandom and the online public sphere / Elizabeth Anne Bailey
  • Chapter 4. Cult and culture: Transformative fandom-de dum de dum de dum / Helen Burrows
  • Chapter 5. Gauging guerrilla engagement: The unexpected benefits of the academic archers conference / Carenza Lewis
  • Chapter 6. When the programme leaves the fans / Katharine Hoskyn
  • Chapter 7. It's saturday, it must be the archers! / Saturday Academic Archers Group aka The Saturday Group Section Two. Fandom in Action: Real Life Application of Fandom
  • Chapter 8. A year in ambridge: Introducing American students to english village culture through the archers / Timothy Vercellotti
  • Chapter 9. Teaching the archers - creating new fans or turning them off? / Caroline Birks
  • Chapter 10. They needed counselling? / Karen Pollock
  • Chapter 11. Airing abuse in ambridge: Is the archers a forum for feminism? / Isobel Duxfield
  • Chapter 12. Crowd-sourcing material culture: A history of ambridge in 100 objects / Felicity Macdonald-Smith
  • Chapter 13. The view from lakey hill: How the archers empowers, liberates and enables listeners who are blind / Laura Smith.

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