Louisa Ellen Stein

Kristina Busse

Introduction: the literary, televisual and digital adventures of the beloved detective / Louisa Ellen Stein and Kristina Busse -- Transmedia and Collective Intelligence. Sherlock's epistemological cconomy and the value of "fan" knowledge: how producer-fans play the (great) game of fandom / Matt Hills -- Winning "the grand game": Sherlock and the fragmentation of fan discourse / Ashley D. Polasek -- Sherlock then and now. "But it's the solar system!": reconciling science and faith through astronomy / Ariana Scott-Zechlin -- Terror, nostalgia and the pursuit of Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock / Ellen Burton Harrington -- Decoding the industrial and digital city: visions of security in Holmes' and Sherlock's London / Anne Kustritz and Melanie E. S. Kohnen -- Adaptations and intertextuality. Shaping Sherlocks: institutional practice and the adaptation of character / Elizabeth Jane Evans -- Sherlock's webs: what the detective remembered from the doctor about transmediality / C B Harvey -- Holmes in the small screen: the television contexts of Sherlock / Tom Steward -- Interpreting Sherlock. "Good old index"; or, the mystery of the infinite archive / Roberta Pearson -- Sherlock: critical reception by the media / Paul Rixon -- Holmes abroad: Dutch fans interpret the famous detective / Nicolle Lamerichs -- Postmodern Sherlock. Sherlock and the (re)invention of modernity / Balaka Basu -- Sherlock as cyborg: bridging mind and body / Francesca Coppa -- Conclusion: transmedia Sherlock and beyond / Kristina Busse and Louisa Ellen Stein.

Essays on the BBC Series

Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom

Samantha Close

This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres. Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have assembled an edited collection that showcases the aesthetic diversity and transcultural dynamics at play in fan video as a widespread form. The collection explores the relationships between fan video as a set of DIY subcultural authorship forms and the broader evolving popular cultures of digital media, looking at how fan video structures and aesthetics influence other popular and commercial forms of digital video. In order to do so, it examines a wide range of fan video genres and practices, including vidding, reaction videos, self-insert TikToks, ASMR videos, Let’s Play videos, streams, Bilibili videos, gif loops, fan films, crack videos, animatics, collection videos, deepfakes, fake trailers, and fan video essays, among others. It features chapters by a range of scholars working in the intersecting fields of digital media studies, fan studies, media studies, cultural studies, audience studies, video game studies, transcultural studies, and videographic studies. A field-defining collection, this Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of digital media studies, fan studies, media studies, cultural studies, videographic studies, and beyond.

The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship

Alexander Cho

Allison Maura McCracken

Indira Neill Hoch

"This is the first book to take an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or Facebook, Tumblr and its users have been hugely influential in creating and shifting popular culture, especially progressive youth culture, with the New York Times referring to 2014 as the dawning of the "age of Tumblr activism." Perfect for those unfamiliar with the platform as well as those who grew up on it, this volume contains essays and artwork that span many different topics: fandom; platform structure and design; race, gender and sexuality, including queer and trans identities; aesthetics; disability and mental health; and social media privacy and ethics. It contains work from over 60 contributors and includes more than 90 illustrations and three galleries, honoring Tumblr's identity as a heavily image-based social network. An entire generation of young people that is now beginning to influence mass culture and politics came of age on Tumblr, and this volume is an indispensable guide to the many ways this platform works"--

Platform and Cultures

A Tumblr Book

In an ambitious study encompassing a wide range of media texts, including popular television series like "Kyle XY," "Glee," "Gossip Girl," "Veronica Mars," and "Pretty Little Liars" and online works like "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries," as well as fan texts from blog posts and tweets to remix videos, YouTube posts, and image-sharing streams, author Louisa Ellen Stein traces the circulation of the contradictory tropes of millennial hope and millennial noir. Looking at what millennials do with digital technology demonstrates the molding impact of commercial representations, and at the same time reveals how millennials are undermining, negotiating, and changing those narratives.

Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age

Millennial Fandom

Sharon Marie Ross

This essay collection explores the phenomenon of "teen TV" in the United States, analyzing the meanings and manifestations of this category of programming from a variety of perspectives. Part One views teen television through an industrial perspective, examining how networks such as WB, UPN, The CW, and The N have created a unique economic framework based on demographic niches and teen-focused narrowcasting. Part Two focuses on popular teen programs from a cultural context, evaluating how such programs reflect and at times stretch the envelope of the cultural contexts in which they are created. Finally, Part Three explores the cultures of reception (including the realms of teen consumerism, fan discourse, and unofficial production) through which teens and consumers of teen media have become authors of the teenage experience in their own right.

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