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[Commlist] New Book: Killer Fandom

Wed Nov 22 13:04:48 GMT 2023


New Open Access Book: Killer Fandom

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, diamond open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are excited to announce the publication of Killer Fandom: Fan Studies and the Celebrity Serial Killer:

https://www.mediastudies.press/killer-fandom

Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us.

The book is available online and as a free download in PDF and ePub. A paperback version is also available.

https://www.mediastudies.press/killer-fandom <https://www.mediastudies.press/killer-fandom>

Killer Fandom appears in the Media Manifold Series series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are encouraged to reach out with a query:

https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals <https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals>

You can learn more about mediastudies.press, including our operations and OA principles, on our site:

https://www.mediastudies.press/about <https://www.mediastudies.press/about>

The press is a member of the Open Book Collective and the ScholarLed consortium, and also publishes the History of Media Studies journal. Please contact us at press@mediastudies.press <https://mailto:press@mediastudies.press>.
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