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Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (Paperback
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- 9781479879571
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- Book Title
- Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergen
- Publication Name
- Fake Geek Girls : Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- Critical Cultural Communication Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Reveals the systematic marginalization of women within pop culture fan communities When Ghostbusters returned to the screen in 2016, some male fans of the original film boycotted the all-female adaptation of the cult classic, turning to Twitter to express their disapproval and making it clear that they considered the film's "real" fans to be white, straight men. While extreme, these responses are far from unusual, with similar uproars around the female protagonists of the new Star Wars films to full-fledged geek culture wars and harassment campaigns, as exemplified by the #GamerGate controversy that began in 2014. Over the past decade, fan and geek culture has moved from the margins to the mainstream as fans have become tastemakers and promotional partners, with fan art transformed into official merchandise and fan fiction launching new franchises. But this shift has left some people behind. Suzanne Scott points to the ways in which the "men's rights" movement and antifeminist pushback against "social justice warriors" connect to new mainstream fandom, where female casting in geek-nostalgia reboots is vilified and historically feminized forms of fan engagement-like cosplay and fan fiction-are treated as less worthy than male-dominant expressions of fandom like collection, possession, and cataloguing. While this gender bias harkens back to the origins of fandom itself, Fake Geek Girls contends that the current view of women in fandom as either inauthentic masqueraders or unwelcome interlopers has been tacitly endorsed by Hollywood franchises and the viewer demographics they selectively champion. It offers a view into the inner workings of how digital fan culture converges with old media and its biases in new and novel ways.
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Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
1479879576
ISBN-13
9781479879571
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038376596
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Fake Geek Girls : Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Series
Critical Cultural Communication Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
22
Lc Classification Number
Hm646.S36 2019
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Fake Geek Girls is a must read for anyone interested in the gender politics of the media industry and media fandom. Scott connects the dots between GamerGate, Trumps election, and the mainstreaming of fandom, revealing the systemic gender policing underpinning all three. An incisive and thoughtful critique, this book lays bare the gendered logics at work in the industrys hailing of fans while recognizing the complexity of their response., "Fake Geek Girls is a must read foranyone interested in the gender politics of the media industry and mediafandom. Scott connects the dots between GamerGate, Trump's election, and themainstreaming of fandom, revealing the systemic gender policing underpinningall three. An incisive and thoughtful critique, this book lays bare thegendered logics at work in the industry's hailing of fans while recognizing thecomplexity of their response."-Louisa Stein,author of Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age, "Essentialreading for anyone interested in fandom, media industries, and the largerpolitical struggles in which we all live. In this compelling book, Scottinvestigates the boundary-policing in media fandom that constructs female fansas inauthentic, marginal, and unwelcome. FakeGeek Girls situatesthese gendered struggles as part of a larger war on women, helping us tounderstand the way that privilege and power operate within contemporaryconvergence culture and beyond."-Derek Johnson,author of Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries, Fake Geek Girls ties together a dizzying array of fan studies theories, feminist media theories, and industrial critiques to build a convincing argument about the convergence culture industry and its gendered practices... Fake Geek Girls provides an interesting and timely intervention into questions of gender, fan studies, and popular culture., Essential reading for anyone interested in fandom, media industries, and the larger political struggles in which we all live. In this compelling book, Scott investigates the boundary-policing in media fandom that constructs female fans as inauthentic, marginal, and unwelcome. Fake Geek Girls situates these gendered struggles as part of a larger war on women, helping us to understand the way that privilege and power operate within contemporary convergence culture and beyond., Scott has created a terrific and timely account of the exclusionary logics that inform fan culture and mirror contemporary American politics. It helps contextualize the recent sexist, racist, and homophobic backlashes against Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ghostbusters, and The Little Mermaid (for casting a black actress as Ariel) as symptomatic of the culture at large. Fake Geek Girls is a must read for anyone interested in learning how gender, power, and privilege shape media production and fandom.
Copyright Date
2019
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Women's Studies
Lccn
2018-026984
Dewey Decimal
305.42
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science
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