[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book review - US only - A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

[Mike Rhode]

This book is taken, thank you.

Mike

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:23 AM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> US only due to postage costs I'm afraid. Available to the first person who
> writes ME back at mrhode at gmail.com
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>
> A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy
> Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill
> University Press of Mississippi 2020
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Portrait-of-the-Auteur-as-Fanboy__;!!KGKeukY!m0SE4zV0y07KNTFn-03Q6qli2eBXfBaSPh0FGP5K4v0aBmTpb8BIQgAa4_1OsRMdQNKWU4fIshOW$ 
> Description
>
> Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers,
> directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality
> media making—the “fanboy auteur. ” Figures like Joss Whedon are both one of
> “us” and one of “them. ” This is a strategy of marketing and branding—it is
> a claim from the auteur himself or industry PR machines that the presence
> of an auteur who is also a fan means the product is worth consuming. Such
> claims that fan credentials guarantee quality are often contested, with
> fans and critics alike rejecting various auteur figures as the true leader
> of their respective franchises. That split, between assertions of fan and
> auteur status and acceptance (or not) of that status, is key to unravelling
> the fan auteur.
>
> In *A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in
> Transmedia Franchises*, authors Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill examine
> this phenomenon through a series of case studies featuring fanboys. The
> volume discusses both popular fanboys, such as J. J. Abrams, Kevin Smith,
> and Joss Whedon, as well as fangirls like J. K. Rowling, E L James, and
> Patty Jenkins, and dissects how the fanboy-fangirl auteur dichotomy is
> constructed and defended by popular media and fans in online spaces, and
> how this discourse has played in maintaining the exclusionary status quo of
> geek culture.
>
> This book is particularly timely given current discourse, including such
> incidents as the controversy surrounding Joss Whedon’s so-called feminism,
> the publication of *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*, and contestation
> over authorial voices in the DC cinematic universe, as well as broader
> conversations about toxic masculinity and sexual harassment in Hollywood.
>
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