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"I'm Buffy, and you're history": Putting fan studies into history

Author(s) -

Nancy Reagin,

Anne Rubenstein

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

transformative works and cultures

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1941-2258

DOI - 10.3983/twc.2011.0272

Subject(s) - amateur , fandom , transformative learning , public history , history , media studies , popular culture , sociology , archaeology , pedagogy

This essay kicks off the special historical issue of Transformative Works and Cultures by offering an overview of the ways in which fan communities have been studied by academic historians, and how fan studies has written the history of fan communities. The essay discusses historical work done by amateur fan historians throughout the 20th century; what academic historians can offer fan communities; why academic historians could benefit from studying fandoms as part of the history of popular culture; and what fan studies as a discipline might gain from a broader historical analysis of fandoms

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