Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age

Published by New York University Press 2019

Anti-Fandom

Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age

Edited by: Melissa A. Click

Volume 24 in the series Postmillennial Pop

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479866625.001.0001

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About this book

A revealing look at the pleasure we get from hating figures like politicians, celebrities, and TV characters, showcased in approaches that explore snark, hate-watching, and trolling

The work of a fan takes many forms: following a favorite celebrity on Instagram, writing steamy fan fiction fantasies, attending meet-and-greets, and creating fan art as homages to adored characters. While fandom that manifests as feelings of like and love are commonly understood, examined less frequently are the equally intense, but opposite feelings of dislike and hatred.

Disinterest. Disgust. Hate. This is anti-fandom. It is visible in many of the same spaces where you see fandom: in the long lines at ComicCon, in our politics, and in numerous online forums like Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, and the ever dreaded comments section. This is where fans and fandoms debate and discipline. This is where we love to hate. Anti-Fandom,a collection of 15 original and innovative essays, provides a framework for future study through theoretical and methodological exemplars that examine anti-fandom in the contemporary digital environment through gender, generation, sexuality, race, taste, authenticity, nationality, celebrity, and more. From hatewatching Girls and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to trolling celebrities and their characters on Twitter, these chapters ground the emerging area of anti-fan studies with a productive foundation. The book demonstrates the importance of constructing a complex knowledge of emotion and media in fan studies. Its focus on the pleasures, performances, and practices that constitute anti-fandom will generate new perspectives for understanding the impact of hate on our identities, relationships, and communities.

Author / Editor information

Click Melissa A. :

Melissa A. Click is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Gonzaga University. Her work has been published in the anthologies Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World and Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century. She is co-editor of Dislike, Hate, and Anti-fandom in the Digital Age, The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, and Bitten by Twilight.

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Together, the chapters in Anti-Fandom provide much of the groundwork needed to provide a framework for anti-fan theory, and anyone looking to jump into this emerging area of study will find this book both interesting and useful.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Haters Gonna Hate Melissa A. Click Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Theorizing Anti-Fandom
1. How Do I Dislike Thee? Let Me Count the Ways Jonathan Gray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Hating 3.0 Should Anti- Fan Studies Be Renewed for Another Season? Emma A. Jane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3. Hatewatch with Me Anti- Fandom as Social Performance Anne Gilbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4. Dissatisfaction and Glee On Emotional Range in Fandom and Feels Culture Louisa Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Anti- Fandom Meets Ante- Fandom Doctor Who Fans’ Textual Dislike and “Idiorrhythmic” Fan Experiences Matt Hills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Part II: Anti- Fandom and Identities
6. The Politics of Against Political Participation, Anti- Fandom, and Populism Cornel Sandvoss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. Hating Skyler White Gender and Anti- Fandom in AMC’s Breaking Bad Holly Willson Holladay and Melissa A. Click Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. Why All the Hate? Four Black Women’s Anti- Fandom and Tyler Perry Alfred L. Martin Jr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
9. Just Sexual Games and Twenty- Four- Hour Parties? Anti- Fans Contest the Global Crossover of Reggaetón Music Online Michelle M. Rivera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
10. “I Just Hate It Now” The Supracultural Anti- Fans of BBC Radio 3 Roberta Pearson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Part III: Anti- Fandom in Real Life
11. A Game of Moans Fantipathy and Criticism in Football Fandom Richard McCulloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
12. Like Gnats to a Forklift Foot TLC’s Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the Conservative Undercurrent of Ambivalent Fan Laughter Whitney Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
13. “If Even One Person Gets Hurt Because of Those Books, That’s Too Many” Fifty Shades Anti- Fandom, Lived Experience, and the Role of the Subcultural Gatekeeper Bethan Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
14. When Hated Characters Talk Back Twitter, Hate, and Fan/Celebrity Interactions Bertha Chin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
15. “Putting the Show out of Its Misery” Textual Endings, Anti- Fandom, and the “Rejection Discourse” Rebecca Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339