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Title Anti-fandom : dislike and hate in the digital age / edited by Melissa A. Click
Published New York : New York University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : illustrations
Series Postmillennial pop
Postmillennial pop.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Haters Gonna Hate / Melissa A. Click -- 1. How Do I Dislike Thee? Let Me Count the Ways / Jonathan Gray -- 2. Hating 3.0: Should Anti-Fan Studies Be Renewed for Another Season? / Emma A. Jane -- 3. Hatewatch with Me: Anti-Fandom as Social Performance / Anne Gilbert -- 4. Dissatisfaction and Glee: On Emotional Range in Fandom and Feels Culture / Louisa Stein -- 5. Anti- Fandom Meets Ante- Fandom: Doctor Who Fans' Textual Dislike and "Idiorrhythmic" Fan Experiences / Matt Hills -- 6. The Politics of Against: Political Participation, Anti-Fandom, and Populism / Cornel Sandvoss -- 7. Hating Skyler White: Gender and Anti-Fandom in AMC's Breaking Bad / Holly Willson HOlladay and Melissa A. Click -- 8. Why All the Hate? Four Black Women's Anti-Fandom and Tyler Perry / Alfred L. Martin, Jr.-- 9. Just Sexual Games and Twenty- Four- Hour Parties? Anti-Fans Contest the Global Crossover of Reggaetón Music Online / Michelle M. Rivera-- 10. "I Just Hate It Now": The Supracultural Anti-Fans of BBC Radio 3 / Roberta Pearson-- 11. A Game of Moans: Fantipathy and Criticism in Football Fandom / Richard McCulloch -- 12. Like Gnats to a Forklift Foot: TLC's Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the Conservative Undercurrent of Ambivalent Fan Laughter / Whitney Phillips -- 13. "If Even One Person Gets Hurt Because of Those Books, That's Too Many": Fifty Shades Anti-Fandom, Lived Experience, and the Role of the Subcultural Gatekeeper / Bethan Jones -- 14. When Hated Characters Talk Back: Twitter, Hate, and Fan/Celebrity Interactions / Bertha Chin -- 15. "Putting the Show out of Its Misery": Textual Endings, Andi-Fandom, and the "Rejection Discourse" / -- Rebecca Williams -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore snark, hate-watching, and trolling The work of a fan takes many forms: following a favorite celebrity on Instagram, writing steamy fan fiction fantasies, attending meet-and-greets, and creating fan art as homages to adored characters. While fandom that manifests as feelings of like and love are commonly understood, examined less frequently are the equally intense, but opposite feelings of dislike and hatred. Disinterest. Disgust. Hate. This is anti-fandom. It is visible in many of the same spaces where you see fandom: in the long lines at ComicCon, in our politics, and in numerous online forums like Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, and the ever dreaded comments section. This is where fans and fandoms debate and discipline. This is where we love to hate. Anti-Fandom, a collection of 15 original and innovative essays, provides a framework for future study through theoretical and methodological exemplars that examine anti-fandom in the contemporary digital environment through gender, generation, sexuality, race, taste, authenticity, nationality, celebrity, and more. From hatewatching Girls and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to trolling celebrities and their characters on Twitter, these chapters ground the emerging area of anti-fan studies with a productive foundation. The book demonstrates the importance of constructing a complex knowledge of emotion and media in fan studies. Its focus on the pleasures, performances, and practices that constitute anti-fandom will generate new perspectives for understanding the impact of hate on our identities, relationships, and communities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2019)
Subject Celebrities -- Public opinion
Hate.
Social media.
Fans (Persons) -- Attitudes
Hate
Social Media
hate.
social media.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Hate
Social media
Form Electronic book
Author Click, Melissa A., 1971- editor.
ISBN 9781479866625
1479866628