Popular Media Cultures

Introduction: Fans and Paratexts; Lincoln Geraghty PART I: WRITING IN THE MARGINS 1. We put the 'media' in (anti)social media': Channel 4's Youth Audiences, Unofficial Archives and the Promotion of Second-Screen Viewing; Michael O'Neill 2. Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics and Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea ; Cornel Sandvoss, Kelly Youngs and Joanne Hobbs 3. 'A Reason to Live': Utopia and Social Change in Star Trek Fan Letters; Lincoln Geraghty PART II: READING BETWEEN THE LINES 4. Victims and Villains: Psychological Themes, Male Stars and Horror Films in the 1940s; Mark Jancovich 5. 'I Want to Do Bad Things With You': The TV Horror Title Sequence; Stacey Abbott 6. Cannibal Holocaust : The Paratextual (Re)Construction of History; Simon Hobbs PART III: FROM SPOILER TO FAN ACTIVIST 7. From Angel to Much Ado : Cross-Textual Catharsis, Kinesthetic Empathy, and Whedonverse Fandom; Tanya R. Cochran 8. Location, location, location: Citizen-fan Journalists' 'set reporting' and Info-war in the Digital Age; Matt Hills 9. Sherlock Holmes, the Defacto Franchise; Roberta Pearson 10. 'Cultural acupuncture': Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance; Henry Jenkins Afterword: Studying Media With and Without Paratexts; Jonathan Gray Index