Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry (Critical Cultural Communication) PDF
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Fake Geek Girls CRITICAL CULTURAL COMMUNICATION General Editors: Jonathan Gray, Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw Founding Editors: Sarah Banet- Weiser and Kent A. Ono Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in Technomobility in China: Young the Media Migrant Women and Mobile Phones Isabel Molina- Guzmán Cara Wallis The Net Effect: Romanticism, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Capitalism, and the Internet Cultural Production Thomas Streeter Lisa Henderson Our Biometric Future: Facial Cached: Decoding the Internet in Recognition Technology and the Global Popular Culture Culture of Surveillance Stephanie Ricker Schulte Kelly A. Gates Black Television Travels: African Critical Rhetorics of Race American Media around the Globe Edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent Timothy Havens A. Ono Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, Circuits of Visibility: Gender and and the Nation Transnational Media Cultures Hector Amaya Edited by Radha S. Hegde Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Commodity Activism: Cultural Technology and Emotion in America Resistance in Neoliberal Times Brenton J. Malin Edited by Roopali Mukherjee and The Post- Racial Mystique: Media and Sarah Banet- Weiser Race in the Twenty- First Century Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race Catherine R. Squires and Representation after 9/11 Making Media Work: Cultures of Evelyn Alsultany Management in the Entertainment Visualizing Atrocity: Arendt, Evil, and Industries the Optics of Thoughtlessness Edited by Derek Johnson, Derek Valerie Hartouni Kompare, and Avi Santo The Makeover: Reality Television and Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish- Reflexive Audiences language Radio and Public Advocacy Katherine Sender Dolores Inés Casillas Authentic™: The Politics of Orienting Hollywood: A Century of Film Ambivalence in a Brand Culture Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay Sarah Banet- Weiser Nitin Govil Asian American Media Activism: Netflix Nations: The Geography of Fighting for Cultural Citizenship Digital Distribution Lori Kido Lopez Ramon Lobato Struggling for Ordinary: Media and The Identity Trade: Selling Privacy and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Reputation Online Life Nora A. Draper Andre Cavalcante Media & Celebrity: An Introduction to Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in Fame the Twenty- First Century Susan J. Douglas and Andrea Suzanne Leonard McDonnell Dot- Com Design: The Rise of a Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and Useable, Social, Commercial Web the Convergence Culture Industry Megan Sapnar Ankerson Suzanne Scott Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity Ralina L. Joseph Fake Geek Girls Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry Suzanne Scott NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York www.nyupress.org © 2019 by New York University All rights reserved A portion of chapter 6 was first published as the article “The Hawkeye Initiative: Pinning Down Transformative Feminisms in Comic- Book Culture through Superhero Crossplay Fan Art” by Suzanne Scott from Cinema Journal 55:1, pp. 150– 160. Copyright ©2015 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Scott, Suzanne, 1979– author. Title: Fake geek girls : fandom, gender, and the convergence culture industry / Suzanne Scott. Description: New York : New York University Press, [2019] | Series: Critical cultural communication | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018026984 | ISBN 9781479838608 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781479879571 (pb : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Fans (Persons) | Women in popular culture. | Sexism in mass media. | Feminism and mass media. Classification: LCC HM646 .S36 2019 | DDC 305.42—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018026984 New York University Press books are printed on acid- free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppli- ers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Also available as an ebook For Luke, my favorite fanboy. Contents Introduction: Make Fandom Great Again 1 1. A Fangirl’s Place Is in the Resistance: Feminism and Fan Studies 25 2. “Get a life, will you people?!”: The Revenge of the Fanboy 51 3. Interrogating the Fake Geek Girl: The Spreadable Misogyny of Contemporary Fan Culture 76 4. Terms and Conditions: Co- Opting Fan Labor and Containing Fan Criticism 109 5. One Fanboy to Rule Them All: Fanboy Auteurs, Fantrepreneurs, and the Politics of Professionalization 144 6. From Poaching to Pinning: Fashioning Postfeminist Geek Girl(y) Culture 184 Conclusion: Fan Studies’ OTP: Fandom and Intersectional Feminism 221 Acknowledgments 235 Notes 239 Index 277 About the Author 291 ix
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