Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry

'fake Geek Girls' Offers A Timely Survey Of The Gendered Tensions Underpinning The Media Industry's Embrace Of Fans As Tastemakers And Promotional Partners Over The Past Decade As Fan Culture Has Moved From The Margins To The Mainstream. Through An Exploration Of The Subtle And Interconnected Ways In Which Media Industries, Journalists, And Other Fans Have Cultivated An Androcentric Vision Of Fan Identity And Participation, This Work Surveys The Politics Of Participation Within Contemporary Fan Cultures And Reasserts The Importance Of Feminism To Fan Studies. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Make Fandom Great Again -- 1. A Fangirl’s Place Is In The Resistance: Feminism And Fan Studies -- 2. “get A Life, Will You People?!”: The Revenge Of The Fanboy -- 3. Interrogating The Fake Geek Girl: The Spreadable Misogyny Of Contemporary Fan Culture -- 4. Terms And Conditions: Co- Opting Fan Labor And Containing Fan Criticism -- 5. One Fanboy To Rule Them All: Fanboy Auteurs, Fantrepreneurs, And The Politics Of Professionalization -- 6. From Poaching To Pinning: Fashioning Postfeminist Geek Girl(y) Culture -- Conclusion: Fan Studies’ Otp: Fandom And Intersectional Feminism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author Suzanne Scott. Previously Issued In Print: 2019. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.