HENRY JENKINS TEXTUAL POACHERS PDF

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture [Henry Jenkins] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The twentieth anniversary. Textual Poachers has ratings and 34 reviews. Sarah said: I loved this book and am currently fangirling Henry Jenkins. Which is something I would like. Review: Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins. Gregg Rickman. FILM QUART Vol. 46 No. 4, Summer, (p. 63) DOI: .

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It’s a study of media fandom, and it’s rational and interesting. As that textyal is in some regards a sequel to Textual Poachers, I also checked it out to compare texts.

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At the time, I sent out copies of the manuscript to everyone quoted, and I still have a bulging file of letters I received in response from countless fan women. Still, I appreciated him doing it. There seems to be a rising climate of Academophobia. Other editions – View all Textual Poachers: It’s rather uncomfortably outdated, though, appearing before the internet became a fannish locus.

Rethinking the Industrial Mindset: THose of us on pachers list with a more analytic turn of mind, whether we be academes or poachsrs, poke and prod and examine our feelings and thoughts, and those of you all anyhow. I recommend both henfy them; they don’t repeat that much, and both jenlins me great insight into my own hobby.

I’d rather curl with a good zine than analyze it to death. Those looking for scholarly rigour may be disappointed, henr the trade-off is a highly accessible book. The book’s focus is on media fans as an “interpretive community” that “poaches” media texts in order to subvert their intended meaning and reclaim ownership of popular culture from massive corporate interests.

He looks at how fans write and recreate their own texts and how these consumers also become producers. I read it and say, “Yeah. I think it’s neat that slash has buggered academia. Don’t be jenmins by the title—this is a highly sympathetic and insightful discussion about fandom and fanzines. It is a pity then to find that he uses that Saturday Night Live ‘Get a Life’ sketch for the introductory chapter. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Oct 03, Angie rated it it was amazing.

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Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture – Henry Jenkins – Google Books

Textual Poachers was published when internet fandom was in its very early years, so the text primarily concerns the fanzine era of media I’ve been familiar with Jenkins’ work for years, but this is the first time that I have actually sat down and read one of his books in its entirety.

I may not always agree with what he says, but I do believe he went out of his way to be fair and accurate. Her current book project, Millennial Mediaexplores digital authorship and fandom in the millennial generation.

Like the poachers of old, fans operate from a position of marginality and social weakness.

Who gives a crap about some lonely douche who writes Star Trek fiction in which Spock and Cpt. Great exploration of how different fan commu I should have read this book 20ish years ago, back when I was slightly defensive based on the mockery and cultural condemnation about being a science fiction fan.

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

This was written when internet fan culture tfxtual just a nascent thing, so unlike when I first read it in the nineties, a lot the text it seems almost quaint. Essentially, he argues that, contrary to popular media theory at the time, television fans are not mindless consumers, but people quite willing to appropriate and be critical of the shows they view, as well as imbue them with their own cultural meanings.

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Keep in mind that Jean Kluge’s original was an alternative universe version of Star Trek: Jenkins steers a realistic middle course between the get-a-life stereotype and the rose-colored view that fandom is an extended ideal family. Slash and the FanWriting Community.

Television Fans and Participatory Culture. What’s not to love? Gender Genre Beauty and the Beast. So anyway, I read this book primarily for fun. This short review is also posted on my blog at http: The book also includes a detailed artist’s statement in which GLM explains the process of photographic manipulation through which she generated the core image. The above description fits me, as well as friends in my little fan posse: Content is available under Fanlore: Jenkins is careful to distance himself from other academic examinations of fandom; in fact, by being a fan himself he has had to work hard at NOT identifying too closely with any particular fan group or text.

I suspect both these faults will be addressed in his upcoming books due out this summer. A professor, taking fandom seriously! What I deplore is the fact that Jenkins didn’t chose to contrast this particular Saturday Night Live sketch with the earlier one starring Elliot Gould, but then that particular one was about the programme, not its fans and therefore not useful for this study.

Some of these informal gatherings may have influenced his findings of fandom as a participatory culture; that media fandom is an ACTIVE forum, not just the passivity of watching a television series.

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