Lindsay H. Garrison
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Individual vs. community?
Great post, Louisa! This is a fascinating example to look at in comparison with Kristen's excellent discussion of the squeeing, cheek-grabbing performance of emotion in female fans. Here, as you mention, the intellectual self-awareness is clearly pre ... -
Wow.
Fascinating vid, Kristina. This is a stirring example with which to think about the dialectic nature of fandom and celebrity as well as the way that social media can intensify that relationship, especially when it allows for the erasure of the agent, publ ... -
Yes!
Yes, the latest Miley incident is a great tie in here. In some ways it's another attempt to contain female agency and sexuality. In other ways, it's also playing out fears and anxieties about celebrity culture in general and it's threat to ... -
Visibility of Fan Performance
Thanks for this great post, Kristen. I think you make an excellent point about this type of enthusiastic, squee-ing fan being the most accessible for these blurring relationships between celebrity and fan. Part of it, it seems, is of course the fact that ... -
Fan/Celeb overlap?
Like Rosie O'Donnell, this also reminds me in some ways of Kathy Griffin or Chelsea Handler, in navigating that line between fan, celebrity gossip, and personal experiences and affinities while continuing to draw on both sides simultaneously. Other e ... -
Desiring down
Thanks for bringing this up, Annie- you make a great point. This interaction between "desiring up" and "desiring down" make young stars like Justin Bieber a particularly complex part of popular culture, especially as advertisers/market ... -
Ironic/Resistive consumption?
I think it's certainly related, Kristina! I'm so fascinated by your explanation of women actively and aggressively fangirling teen/20-something boybands as something related to the fact that they didn't fangirl appropriate teen groups as te ...