Open AccessFannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in "The X-Files"
Author(s) -
Emily Regan Wills
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2013.0410
Subject(s) - autonomy , politics , sociology , power (physics) , media studies , gender studies , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics
Fandoms can constitute discourse communities, where fans make claims about issues of real-world political importance, such as the relationship between gender, power, and autonomy, and where other fans engage with and evaluate those claims. In fan works and fan analyses of Dana Scully in the television show The X-Files, fans pose claims both in discussion spaces and in the creation of fan fiction, and these fannish evaluations and discussions of these fictions analyze those claims