Fan Culture
As a child of the '70s, I'm fascinated by popular culture, the ordinary daily forms of entertainment that people use to cheer themselves up after a bad day or which serve as the underpinnings as a lifelong obsession. Because I am an English professor, I look at popular culture as an intellectual activity. I believe that cultural shifts reflect popular culture and vice-versa. Therefore I'd like to make this part of my website a site for the academic exploration of my various interests.
My Popular Culture articles:
Saving the Digital World: Children, Digimon, and Baudrillard's Hyperreality. 26th
Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film. West Virginia University, Morgantown,
WVA. 28 September 2001.
“Three Generations: Middle Earth, A Galaxy Far Far Away, and Hogwarts.” Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. 1.1 (2002): 5-16.
“Broadcast Standards and Practices: How American Networks Edit Anime for English-speaking audiences.” Globalization and Cultural Diversity Conference. Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA, 20 September 2002.
My Anime Reviews:
I am fan of Japanese animation and I'm also a writing teacher. For assignments to write a movie review, I've written a couple reviews of anime series as examples.
Other online fan and popular culture resources
H-Net Reviews:
Joe Sanders, ed. Science Fiction Fandom. Reviewed by Richard Tuerk.
Video Games:
Game Studies -- an academic journal about video gaming
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