for context about subcultural and fandom studies, I read and benefited from Matt Hills’s Fan Cultures, Katherine Larsen and Lynn S. Zubernis’s Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, Rob Sheffield’s Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World, Gretchen McCulloch’s Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, and Zoe Fraade-Blanar and Aaron M. Glazer’s Superfandom: How Our Obsessions Are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are, as well as Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, edited by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc; Girl Wide
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