Vol 4 (2010)

"Saving People, Hunting Things," special Supernatural issue of TWC guest edited by Catherine Tosenberger, University of Winnipeg

Table of Contents

Editorial

Love! Valor! "Supernatural"! HTML
Catherine Tosenberger

Praxis

"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension HTML
Catherine Tosenberger
Monstrous melodrama: Expanding the scope of melodramatic identification to interpret negative fan responses to "Supernatural" HTML
Lisa Schmidt
The Impala as negotiator of melodrama and masculinity in "Supernatural" HTML
Melissa N. Bruce
"Let's get those Winchesters pregnant": Male pregnancy in "Supernatural" fan fiction HTML
Berit Åström
Renegotiating religious imaginations through transformations of "banal religion" in "Supernatural" HTML
Line Nybro Petersen
"Hey, check it out, there's actually fans": (Dis)empowerment and (mis)representation of cult fandom in "Supernatural" HTML
Laura E. Felschow
Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction HTML
Monica Flegel, Jenny Roth

Symposium

Tlon, fandom, and source texts: The effect of fan works on the narrative of "Supernatural" HTML
Deepa Sivarajan
"What you don't know": "Supernatural" fan vids and millennial theology HTML
Louisa Ellen Stein
What are little ghouls made of? The "Supernatural" family, fandom, and the problem of Adam HTML
Kristin Noone
"Supernatural" bodies: Writing subjugation and resistance onto Sam and Dean Winchester HTML
Suzette Chan
Infernal redemption HTML
Babak Zarin
From canon to fanon and back again: The epic journey of "Supernatural" and its fans HTML
Melissa Gray
"I'm glad we got burned, think of all the things we learned": Fandom conflict and context in Counteragent's "Still Alive" HTML
Katharina Freund
A box of mirrors, a unicorn, and a pony HTML
Jules Wilkinson

Interview

Interview with Keith R. A. DeCandido HTML
Catherine Tosenberger
Interview with the Super-wiki admin team HTML
Deborah Kaplan
Interview with Wincon organizer Ethrosdemon HTML
TWC Editor

Review

"In the hunt: Unauthorized essays on 'Supernatural,'" edited by Supernatural.tv HTML
Alysa Hornick
"Supernatural role playing game," by J. Chambers HTML
Douglas Schules
"Scare tactics: Supernatural fiction by American women," by Andrew Jeffrey Weinstock HTML
Germán Gil-Curiel
"Contemporary Gothic," by Catherine Spooner HTML
Martin Fradley
"Haunting experiences: Ghosts in contemporary folklore," by Diane E. Goldstein et al. HTML
Linda Levitt
"Pretend we're dead," by Annalee Newitz HTML
Christopher M. Moreman


Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Contact the Editor with questions.