scholarly journals Interview with Jo Graham, Melissa Scott, and Martha Wells

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
TWC Editor
Keyword(s):  
Original Fiction ◽  
Fan Fiction

An interview with Jo Graham, Melissa Scott, and Martha Wells, who are professional authors of original fiction and media tie-in novels in addition to writing fan fiction.

scholarly journals Fifty shades of exploitation: Fan labor and Fifty Shades of Grey

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Original Fiction ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Gift Economy ◽  
Fifty Shades Of Grey

This exploration of the debates that have taken place in fandom over the ethics of pulling fan fiction and publishing it as original work draws on the notion of the fannish gift economy, which postulates that gifts such as fan fiction and fan art have value in the fannish community because they are designed to create and cement its social structure. Tension exists between fans who subscribe to the notion of a fannish gift economy and those who exploit fandom by using it to sell their pulled-to-publish works. An examination of E. L. James's 2012 Fifty Shades trilogy (comprising the books Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed), which began as Twilight fan fiction, in addition to Twilight fan art sold through sites such as Redbubble and Etsy, demonstrates a tension between the two modes of fan expression: sale of artworks appears to be an acceptable practice in fandom, but the commercial sale of fan fic, even when marketed as original fiction, is widely contested.

scholarly journals The mediation of fandom in Karin Giphart's Maak me blij

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolle Lamerichs
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Original Fiction ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
Different Types

The plot of the Dutch novel Maak me blij (Make me happy) (2005) by Karin Giphart draws from the culture of online fan communities. It describes the life of a lesbian in her late 20s, Ziggy, who has a terminally ill mother. Ziggy is an active fan who writes and reads femmeslash fan fiction—that is, lesbian interpretations of characters from mainstream series such as Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001). By providing through Ziggy a personal view of fan communities and the genres that flourish there, Maak me blij connects the romantic motives of original lesbian fiction with its underground sister, fan fiction. The novel draws from various source texts and illustrates how fans interpret texts within a wider literary landscape. I use the concept of intermediality to analyze how Maak me blij mediates different types of original fiction (lesbian romances, science fiction) and fan fiction (femmeslash, Star Trek fan fiction) to establish new views on fandom and its construction of gender and intimacy. These motives are not only apparent within the text itself but also within the character of Ziggy as a fan writer with her own original alien characters.

Characters Before Copyright

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Birkhold
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
Collaborative Authorship ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Consumer Habits ◽  
Archival Work

How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author’s character? Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in eighteenth-century Germany has long been considered unregulated. This book tells a different story. Characters before Copyright documents the surprisingly widespread eighteenth-century practice of writing fan fiction—literary works written by readers who appropriate preexisting characters invented by other authors—and reconstructs the contemporaneous debate about the literary phenomenon. Like fan fiction today, these texts took the form of sequels, prequels, and spinoffs. Analyzing the evolving reading, writing, and consumer habits of late-eighteenth-century Germany, Characters before Copyright identifies the social, economic, and aesthetic changes that fostered the rapid rise of fan fiction after 1750. Based on archival work and an ethnographic approach borrowed from legal anthropology, this book then uncovers the unwritten customary norms that governed the production of these works. Characters before Copyright thus reinterprets the eighteenth-century “literary commons,” arguing that what may appear to have been the free circulation of characters was actually circumscribed by an exacting set of rules and conditions. These norms translated into a unique type of literature that gave rise to remarkable forms of collaborative authorship and originality. Characters before Copyright provides a new perspective on the eighteenth-century book trade and the rise of intellectual property, reevaluating the concept of literary property, the history of moral rights, and the tradition of free culture.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murnaghan ◽  
Deborah H. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Fantasy Literature ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Pleasure Reading ◽  
Classical Mythology ◽  
Children And Young Adults

The preceding work is summed up as a study of adults’ attempts over a century-long period to make sense of their own childhood experiences of antiquity and to recreate those experiences for new generations through the medium of absorbing pleasure reading. Such experiences are valued for their capacity to stimulate the imagination, to expand moral understanding, to pave the way for further education, and to bring renewal or redemption to the disturbed modern world. The chapter ends with a brief survey of developments in classical mythology and historical fiction for children and young adults from the mid-1960s until the present, including the emergence of new forms of fantasy literature and the role of new media such as video games and fan fiction.

Confronting Enterprise Slash Fan Fiction

Extrapolation ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Lee
Keyword(s):  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Slash Fan Fiction

Motivasi Penggemar K-Pop sebagai Citizen Author Menulis Fan Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-52
Author(s):  
Qoryna Noer Seyma El Farabi
Keyword(s):  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Media Fandom

Fandom muncul sebagai kelompok yang terbentuk karena adanya ketertarikan pada satu objek yang sama. Fandom adalah budaya popular dalam masyarakat industri, sebagai bentuk untuk mengagumi suatu budaya. Fandom juga merupakan bukti bahwa khalayak adalah faktor penting dalam perkembangan media. Fandom pada boyband Korea dapat dikatakan yang paling besar dan memiliki anggota terbanyak. Saat ini kemunculan Fandom (kelompok penggemar) pada boyband Korea menyebabkan munculnya aktivitas penggemar dalam mengaktualisasikan Fan Fiction sebagai bentuk dukungan kepada idolanya. Perkembangan penggunaan internet saat ini bukan hanya sebagai media pencarian, namun juga menjadi alat komunikasi. Peneliti mencoba menganalisis fenomena Fan Fiction yang disebarkan dengan memanfaatkan kehadiran internet, yaitu platform Wattpad, dan kemampuan internet yang memungkinkan seseorang untuk dapat menjadi citizen author. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif, dengan melakukan wawancara untuk mendapatkan data. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah terdapat dua faktor yang mempengaruhi seorang fan untuk menulis Fan Fiction mengenai idola mereka, yaitu faktor internal dan juga faktor eksternal.  Kata kunci: Penggemar, Fan Fiction, Citizen Author, Wattpad.

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