[Commlist] CFP Fandom: The Next Generation edited collection

*Fandom: The Next Generation*
*Transgenerational Fans and Long-Running Media Franchises*

*CFP for chapters in edited collection*

Imagine taking your child to see /The Last Jedi /after your own parents 
took you to see/ Return of the Jedi /when you were small. Picture a 
grandmother, mother, and daughter sitting down to watch reruns of /The 
Golden Girls/ together. What keeps fans interested in after so many 
years? How do long-running franchises, revivals, and reboots appeal to 
new audiences? How do social and political changes affect longtime fan 
experiences? This book sets out to explore a relatively unstudied aspect 
of fan and audience studies: longtime fans and generational turnover.

While early fan studies was interested in ethnography, those studies 
tended to concentrate on small pockets of devoted fans at particular 
moments. More recently, the field has expanded to studying anti-fans and 
toxic fans, post-object fandom, and historical fandoms. This collection 
seeks to fill a much-needed gap between the historical and the 
contemporary by studying the media franchises with long durations, 
reboots, and revivals that create generational fan turnover and that ask 
longtime fans to adapt to franchise updates.

With a variety of essays focusing on various fans, communities, and 
theories about fan practices, this collection sets out to study how 
long-running franchises are shaped by the generations of fans that adore 
them, and in turn how those fans navigate generational cultural divides, 
historical vs. recent aspects of the canon, and other elements of 
duration. Possible essay topics might include, but are not limited to:


● Ethnographies of intergenerational or transgenerational fan communities
● Case studies in longtime fan practices and experiences, especially as 
they adapt over time
● Fan break-ups with or reconsiderations of long-running franchises
● The role technological changes play in shaping fan relationships to canon
● Social or cultural forces that shape fan experiences over time
● How producers and creators of long-running franchises have (or have 
not) changed their interactions with fans
● Strategies used by media industries to make canon accessible to new 
generations of fans and/or to longtime fans

At this time, the project is being developed for proposal to the 
University of Iowa Press’ Fandom and Culture series. Several authors are 
committed to writing chapters. We are seeking additional contributors, 
especially on topics related to global or transnational fandom, race, 
gender and sexuality, and/or historically understudied fan communities 
and canons. Essays of 6,000-8,000 words with Chicago author-date style 
citations, a brief author bio, and a CV should be submitted to Bridget 
Kies (Oakland University) at (bridget.kies /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(bridget.kies /at/ gmail.com)> by October 1, 2019. Expressions of 
interest and questions about the project prior to that deadline are welcome!


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