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Author Bacon-Smith, Camille

Title Enterprising women : television fandom and the creation of popular myth / Camille Bacon-Smith ; photographs by Stephanie A. Hall
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations
Series Series in contemporary ethnography
Series in contemporary ethnography.
Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)
Contents Part I: Who are these people and what are they doing? -- Part II: A closer look at the community and its art -- Part III: Transgression and identity
Summary Having ninety percent of its members who are women, this is a study of the worldwide community of fans of "Star Trek" and other genre television series who create and distribute fiction and art based on their favorite series. This community includes people from various walks of life - housewives, librarians, and professors of medieval literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-334) and index
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Subject Television and women -- United States
Television viewers -- United States.
Fans (Persons) -- United States -- Societies and clubs
Popular culture -- United States.
Fan magazines -- United States
Television viewers
Fans (Persons) -- societies & clubs
Popular culture -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Fan magazines
Fans (Persons) -- Societies and clubs
Popular culture
Television and women
Television viewers
Fernsehserie
Weiblicher Fan
Télévision et femmes -- États-Unis.
Television and women -- United States.
Television viewers -- United States.
Fans (Persons) -- United States -- Societies and clubs.
Popular culture -- United States.
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
États-Unis -- Culture populaire.
Genre/Form Science fiction
Science fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585121028
9780585121024