Sentences with phrase «fandom culture»
Worse, Ready Player One reinforces hoary old stereotypes about nerds and fandom cultures, including the centering of white males whose love of stuff coincides with being socially maladroit.
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Certainly, passionate fandom and pop - culture obsessiveness is the foundation of culture writing and, for that matter, a website like
Certainly, passionate fandom and pop - culture obsessiveness is the foundation of culture writing and, for that matter, a website like RELEVANT.
Ply the right college administrator, coach, or even NCAA employee with a few drinks and they'll cop to the cold reality: Fostering a culture of fandom passionate enough to generate millions in revenue will always feed a black market they claim to so fiercely abhor.
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction / fantasy / horror fandom and a type of fan labor.
Gavia Baker - Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom.
As for the commercial disappointment, you can cushion the blow by acknowledging that the film makes no effort to appeal to Americans, instead delving into hooligan culture and a fandom that means nothing to them.
Tammy Oler is a Brooklyn - based writer who has written about pop culture and fandom for Slate, Bitch, Vulture, and Geek among others.
Her work first became popular (and controversial) not because she took J.K. Rowling's world and imagined all - new stories, but because she used it as a template in which she could fit in all of her other pop culture fandom — inserting quippy exchanges from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and passages from authors like Pamela Dean (as this expose detailed) with only minimal changes.
I'm originally from New York, where I cultured deep - rooted obsessions with Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and a myriad of other nerdy fandoms.
Digital comics Rob Salkowitz, who's making the rounds to promote his new book Comic - Con and the Business of Pop Culture, has the best summary yet of the digital comics phenomenon: «Digital doesn't cannibalize the industry; it grows it by encouraging fandom.»
It has been revealed that Nintendo is one of the company offering up prizes for Otakon, a convention for Asian pop culture (anime, manga, music, movies, video games, etc) and its fandom.
Gavia Baker - Whitelaw is a staff writer at the Daily Dot, covering geek culture and fandom.
Take a journey with us through years of studio history and video game culture as we celebrate those of us bold, brave, and fearless enough to let their creative works be driven by pure, exuberant fandom.
Others are more interested in the ways in which pop culture is cherished; Jeremy Deller's installation The Uses of Literacy (1997) explores fandom surrounding the band Manic Street Preachers by collecting paintings, collages, books and poetry created by their followers.
And this particular collection also highlights the contradiction between intellectual property law, which grants companies complete and effectively perpetual control over beloved pieces of culture, and modern fandom, which uses that same culture as building blocks for new art.