Introduction: Why Study Fans? 1
Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington
Section I: Fan Texts: From Aesthetic to Legal Judgements 23
1 The Death of the Reader? Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture 24
Cornel Sandvoss
2 Media Academics as Media Audiences: Aesthetic Judgments in Media and Cultural Studies 43
Matt Hills
3 Yoko in Cyberspace with Beatles Fans: Gender and the Re-Creation of Popular Mythology 64
Christine Scodari
4 Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and the Rights of the Author 82
Rebecca Tushnet
Section II: Beyond Pop Culture: Fandom from News to High Culture 99
5 The News: You Gotta Love It 100
Jonathan Gray
6 The Fans of Cultural Theory 119
Alan McKee
7 Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians 133
Roberta Pearson
8 Fans of Chekhov: Re-Approaching ¿High Culture¿ 150
John Tulloch
Section III: Spaces of Fandom: From Place to Performance 168
9 Place, Elective Belonging, and the Diffused Audience 169
Brian Longhurst, Gaynor Bagnall, and Mike Savage
10 On the Set of The Sopranos: ¿Inside¿ a Fan¿s Constructions of Nearness 189
Nick Couldry
11 A Sort of Homecoming: Fan Viewing and Symbolic Pilgrimage 203
Will Brooker
12 From Smart Fan to Backyard Wrestler: Performance, Context, and Aesthetic Violence 226
Lawrence B. McBride and S. Elizabeth Bird
Section IV: Fan Audiences Worldwide: From the Global to the Local 243
13 Global Fandom/Global Fan Studies 244
C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby
14 Between Rowdies and Rasikas: Rethinking Fan Activity in Indian Film Culture 271
Aswin Punathambekar
15 Beyond Kung-Fu and Violence: Locating East Asian Cinema Fandom 289
Bertha Chin
16 Han Suk-kyu and the Gendered Cultural Economy of Stardom and Fandom 303
Anne Ciecko and Hunju Lee
Section V: Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures: From Concert Halls to Console Games 320
17 Loving Music: Listeners, Entertainments, and the Origins of Music Fandom in Nineteenth Century America 321
Daniel Cavicchi
18 Girls Allowed? The Marginalization of Female Sports Fans 343
Victoria K. Gosling
19 Customer Relationship Management: Automating Fandom in Music Communities 359
Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart
20 Playing the Game: Performance in Digital Game Audiences 373
Garry Crawford
Section VI: Fans and Anti-Fans: From Love to Hate 389
21 Fan-tagonism: Factions, Institutions, and Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom 390
Derek Johnson
22 Untidy: Fan Response to the Soiling of Martha Stewart¿s Spotless Image 413
Melissa A. Click
23 The Anti-Fan Within the Fan: Awe and Envy in Sport Fandom 434
Vivi Theodoropoulou
24 A Vacancy at the Paris Hilton 451
Jeffrey Sconce
25 The Other Side of Fandom: Anti-Fans, Non-Fans, and the Hurts of History 473
Diane F. Alters
26 Afterword: The Future of Fandom 492
Henry Jenkins

Looks beyond television and film to literature and music to examine fans, their practices and their favorite texts. This work contains a selection of 25 essays that examine instances across the spectrum of modern cultural consumption from Karl Marx to Paris Hilton, Bach fugues to Bollywood cinema, and 19th-century concert halls to computer gaming.