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Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans' diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this volume challenge long-established Western-centric and Japanese-focused fan scholarship by highlighting the significance and specificities of Sinophone queer fan cultures and practices in a globalized world. The geographic organization of the chapters illuminates cultural differences and the other competing forces shaping geocultural intersections among fandoms based in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Fans (Persons) --- Sexual minorities in mass media. --- Mass media --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Queer culture --- Asian queer people

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Foreword. Robert Fein and Bryan Vossekuil. 1. Public Figures Stalking: The State of the Science, J. Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, Jens Hoffmann. Section I: Defining the Risk. 2. A Forensic Investigation of Those Who Stalk Celebrities, J. Reid Meloy, Kris Mohandie, Mila Green McGowan. 3. The Role of Psychotic Illness in Attacks on Public Figures, Paul E. Mullen, David V. James, J. Reid Meloy, Michele T. Pathe, Frank R. Farnham, Lulu Preston, Brian Darnley. 4. Homicidal Celebrity Stalkers: Dangerous Obsessions with Nonpolitical Public Figures, Louis B. Schlesinger, V. Blair Mesa. 5. On Public F

Stalking. --- Celebrities. --- Fans (Persons) --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Fan clubs --- Offenses against the person

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Vidding is a well-established remix practice where fans edit an existing film, music video, TV show, or other performance and set it to music of their choosing. Vids emerged forty years ago as a complicated technological feat involving capturing footage from TV with a VCR and syncing with music-and their makers and consumers were almost exclusively women, many of them queer women. The technological challenges of doing this kind of work in the 1970s and 80s when vidding began gave rise to a rich culture of collective work, as well as conventions of creators who gathered to share new work and new techniques. While the rise of personal digital technology eventually made vids simple to create, the collective aspect of the culture grew even stronger with the advent of YouTube, Vimeo, and other channels for sharing work. Vidding: A History emphasizes vidding as a critical, feminist form of fan practice. Working outward from interviews, VHS liner notes, convention programs, and mailing list archives, Coppa offers a rich history of vidding communities as they evolved from the 1970s through to the present. Built with the classroom in mind, the open-access electronic version of this book includes over one-hundred vids and an appendix that includes additional close readings of vids.

Fans (Persons) --- Internet videos --- Production and direction. --- Social aspects. --- Net videos --- Online videos --- Web videos --- Video recordings --- Web sites --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Society and culture: general --- Media studies --- Popular culture --- Social media / social networking

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To dismantle negative stereotypes of fans, this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value. By examining the fandoms of Sherlock, Glee, Firefly, and other popular television-based franchises, the author appeals to fans and scholars alike in her empirically grounded methodology and insightful analysis of production hierarchies, gender, sexuality, play, and affect.

Television viewers --- Television programs --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Audiences, Television --- Television audiences --- Television fans --- Television watchers --- Viewers, Television --- Mass media --- Social aspects. --- Audiences --- Fans (Persons) --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Fandom --- inter/transmediality --- media ethnography --- affect --- subcultures

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In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth. Cities and towns in the south Indian state Tamil Nadu are consistently ornamented with huge billboards, murals and myriad posters featuring political leaders as well as movie stars. A selective part of these images is put up by their fan clubs. Tamil movie fans typically manifest themselves by putting up images of their star in public spaces and by generating a plethora of images in their homes. Gerritsen argues that these images are a crucial part of the everyday affective modes of engagement with family members and film stars but they are also symbolizing the political realm in which fans situate themselves. At the same time, Gerritsen shows how these image productions seem to concur with other visual regimes articulated in government restrictions, world class imaginaries and upper class moralities as presented on India's urban streets.

Motion picture industry --- Motion picture audiences --- Fans (Persons) --- Aficionados --- Devotees --- Enthusiasts (Fans) --- Supporters (Persons) --- Persons --- Hobbyists --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Performing arts --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Social aspects --- Psychology. --- Audiences --- Rajiṉikānt, --- Civāji Rāv Keykvāṭ, --- Keykvāṭ, Civāji Rāv, --- Cattirapati, --- Rajinikanth, --- Rajin̲i, --- Rajnikanth, --- Rajnikant, --- Rajni Kanth, --- Rajani, --- Shivaji Rao Gaekward, --- Gaekward, Shivaji Rao, --- Civājirāv, --- Shivajirao, --- Anthropology, South India, fandom, visual culture, urban space, affect.