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Author:   Rhonda Knight ,  Donald Quist
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781476684154

ISBN 10:   1476684154
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   11 November 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents We Want the Wilderness: A Preface Donald Quist and Rhonda Knight An Introduction to Fans and Franchises: Essays on the Changing Landscape of Fandom Donald Quist and Rhonda Knight with John E. Price Section One: Fans and Canon The ­Pedler-Davis Legacy: Cybermen in the Doctor Who Wilderness Rhonda Knight The Wild Canon: Examining the Slash Impact in Roddenberry’s Star Trek Danielle S. Girard A Hero Divided: The Fractured Narrative Arc of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars Expanded Universe (1977–2014) Jonathan Hay Section Two: Franchises and Fans “What we make of it”: Terminator Salvation and the Neglect of Core Franchise Themes Camilo Peralta Whose Godzilla? Rethinking the King of Monsters Through the Films Joe Yang Where Auteur Fails: Zack Snyder and the ­Author-Function Hannah Taylor The Scraps of DC: Media Ownership, Film Economics and the Arrowverse Tim Posada Reminders of Life’s Impermanence: Death, Endings and Closure in Logan and Avengers: Infinity Mike Hernandez Section Three: Fan Responses “Take me out to the black”: Firefly, Fanfiction and the (Re)Making of Modern Myths Jim Casey and Nicola Rene Govocek You Always Spoof the One You Love: Thirty Years of Professional ­Take-Offs on The Muppet Show Jonathan Hartmann “We, the fans of Star Wars”: Negotiating Resistance in an Age of Consumption Joseph S. Walker Fans, Franchises and Cultural Production: What The Hobbit and Disney’s Star Wars Tell Us About the Internet and Media Entertainment Culture Zachary Sheldon About the Contributors Index

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Rhonda Knight is a professor of English at Coker University in Hartsville, South Carolina, where she currently holds The James Wayne Lemke Endowed Chair in College Service and Leadership. Donald Quist teaches writing at the University of Missouri in Columbia and is on the faculty at the Alma College MFA in Writing Program.

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