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TWC No. 43 released

2024-09-15

Transformative Works and Cultures has released general issue No. 43, edited by coeditors Poe Johnson and Mel Stanfill.

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Vol. 43 (2024): General

Published: 2024-09-14

Editorial

Diversifying the field: Fan studies as a big tent

TWC Editor
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Article

Why costume fandom’s distinctions from cosplay matter: Costuming’s craft, histories, and motivations

Victoria L. Godwin
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The design of printed fan fiction

Naomi Jacobs, JSA Lowe
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Disrupting and restorying horror tropes through fan engagements with the interactive video game Until Dawn

Karis Jones, Sahara Kruidenier
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Playing King Alfred: Historical reenactment and cosplay of Alfred the Great

Martine Mussies
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Audience performance and sports fandom rhetorics during 2020 presidential election debate watch parties

Adam Nicholas Cohen
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One-above-all: Stratifying communication within Marvel fandom

Caleb George Hubbard, Kyle A. Hammonds, Lindsey Meeks
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Developing a working taxonomy for pan-fandom information behavior comparison

Carrie D. Hill
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Shakespeare and Antifandom

To fan or antifan, that is the question

Kavita Mudan Finn, Johnathan H. Pope
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Trolling Shakespeare: Bad objects and the antifan discourses of Roland Emmerich's Anonymous

Johnathan H. Pope
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The universal law of Shakespitation: Pushing and pulling against Shakespearean gravitas

Jessica McCall
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Irish Shakespeare performance (faraway, so close!)

Emer McHugh
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Anti-Shakespeare shrews: Women, sexism, and talking back to the Bard in Upstart Crow and All Is True

Edel Semple
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Citational Shakespearean performances as racialized antifandom in Netflix's The Crown

L. Monique Pittman
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Our Shakespeare, ourselves: The pleasures (and pitfalls) of fannish reading

Kavita Mudan Finn
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Communing with the mulberry: Grafting person to plant in Shakespeare’s fandom

Chelsey Lush
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Baldwin, Shakespeare, whiteness, and (anti)fandom: "What's love got to do with it?"

David Sterling Brown
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Symposium

Virtual idols: A new cultural industry and fan structure

Yinhao Wu
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Fan studies in Latin America: A call to arms

Adriana Amaral, Libertad Borda, Nadiezhda Camacho Quiroz, Clarice Greco
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Book review

"The Shakespeare multiverse: Fandom as literary praxis," by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes

Megan Bontrager
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"Beyond the deck: Critical essays on Magic: The Gathering and its influence," edited by Shelly Jones

Jack Murray
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