Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415617642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 212 str.

Lincoln Geraghty

Opis

'Cult Collectors' examines cultures of consumption and the fans who collect cult film and TV merchandise. Author Lincoln Geraghty argues that there has been a change in the fan convention space, where collectible merchandise and toys, rather than just the fictional text, have become objects for trade, nostalgia, and a focal point for fans' personal narratives.

Spis treści

Introduction: Glorious Obsessions: Nostalgia, Fandom and Cult Consumption Part One:  Stereotypes  Chapter One: Contesting Comic Book Guy: Stereotypes of the Cult Collector in Film and Television  Chapter Two: Movie Magic: Hollywood Memorabilia and Cinema’s Enduring Fandom  Part Two: People  Chapter Three – Masculine Pursuits?: Gender, Generation and the Fan Collector  Chapter Four: Repackaging Generation One: Genre, Memory and Eighties Animated Series as Adult/Children’s Television  Part Three: Places  Chapter Five – From Convention Space to Collecting Space: Popular Fandom and Geographies of Cult Media Merchandising  Chapter Six: Playing with the Force: Fan Identity, Cultural Capital and Star Wars Toy Collecting  Part Four: Spaces  Chapter Seven: Web Wares: New Media Memories and the Technologies of Cult Collecting  Chapter Eight: Model Fans: Lord of the Rings Collectibles and the Reproduction of Fantasy Worlds  Conclusion  Filmography  Bibliography

O autorze

Lincoln Geraghty is Reader in Popular Media Cultures and Director of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research in the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. His research interests lie within the broad contexts of British and American popular culture and he has written extensively in these areas.