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Contents
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Something More Than Love Fan Stories on Film | 135 |
Fans as Tastemakers Viewers for Quality Television | 163 |
Television Executives Speak about Fan Letters to the Networks | 185 |
A Glimpse of the Fan Factory | 191 |
Strangers No More We Sing Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction Fan Community | 208 |
Index | 237 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media |
| Editor | Lisa A. Lewis |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1134899181, 9781134899180 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / Popular Culture Social Science / Media Studies |
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