false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172805822m/219853.jpg 219853 3 <P>"Get a life," William Shatner told <i>Star Trek</i> fans. Yet, as <b></b><b><i>Textual Poachers</i></b> argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices.<br> <br> Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, <b></b><b><i>Textual Poachers</i></b> offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism. Drawing on the work of Michel de Ceteau, Jenkins shows how fans of <i>Star Trek, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Beauty and the Beast, Starsky and Hutch, Alien Nation, Twin Peaks</i>, and other popular programs exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, videos, and social interactions. <br> <br> Addressing both academics and fans, Jenkins builds a powerful case for the richness of fan culture as a popular response to the mass media and as a challenge to the producers' attempts to regulate textual meanings. <b></b><b><i>Textual Poachers</i></b> guides readers through difficult questions about popular consumption, genre, gender, sexuality, and interpretation, documenting practices and processes which test and challenge basic assumptions of contemporary media theory.</P> 212868 21 7 1992 Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication) total:53|5:24|4:23|3:4|2:1|1:1| 53 227 93 10 5 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 10:21:02 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 12:13:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 27 20:18:14 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 20:18:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jan 13 06:53:32 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 06:56:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Mar 04 02:32:48 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 02:33:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 15:17:07 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 22:31:03 -0700 2008
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