Enterprising Women Camille Bacon-Smith

Name: Enterprising Women By Camille Bacon-Smith
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Enterprising Women by Camille Bacon-Smith

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SeriesContemporary Ethnography

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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.

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Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth by Camille Bacon-Smith

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 all walks of life-housewives, librarians, secretaries, and professors of medieval literature. Ninety percent of its members are women.

Enterprising Women Reviews

Enterprising Women offers a picture of one of the few models around for female community and self-affirmation. Rather than accepting the passive female images and consumer values purveyed by most TV shows, women fan-fiction writers have adapted television to their own purposes. * Women's Review of Books *
Bacon-Smith's many years of skillful ethnographic research and lucid prose help nonfans understand the cultural and theoretical significance of the fan-produced fiction, artwork, and social relations that make fandom so cohesive and critically essential to its members. . . . Both males and females in communications, sociology, ethnography, psychology, and women's studies will benefit from this fine book. * Choice *

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By Camille Bacon-Smith

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Sku

CIN0812213793VG

ISBN 13

9780812213799

ISBN 10

0812213793

Title

Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth by Camille Bacon-Smith

Author

Camille Bacon-Smith

Series

Contemporary Ethnography

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Year published

19911201

Number of pages

352

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N/A

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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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