Textual Poachers

Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture is a book written by Henry Jenkins that focuses on the culture and social impact of fans and fandoms.[1] The first edition was released in 1992. Jenkins wrote the book while he was a first year assistant professor. The cover art for the first edition was developed around a piece of Star Trek art by a fan named Jean Kluge. A updated 20th anniversary edition was released in 2012. The new edition starts off with a conversation between Jenkins and Suzanne Scott. The new edition also includes a teaching guide and discussion questions. Jenkins collaborated with a contemporary fan for the cover art of the new edition.[2]

Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture
AuthorHenry Jenkins
Cover artistJean Kluge
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date
1992
Media typePrint
Pages343
ISBN0415905729

Synopsis

The text looks at the television fans and participatory culture, particularly those of popular television shows such as Saturday Night Live, Star Trek, and Alien Nation, paying attention to how fans interact with and respond to the show and each other. In Texual Poachers Jenkins examines topics such as three aspects of fans' characteristics mode of reception: ways fans draw texts close to the realm of their lived experience, the role played by rereading within fan culture, and the process by which program information gets inserted into ongoing social interactions. He also examines gender and fanfiction, as well as fan readers.

Reception

Textual Poachers was reviewed by Gregg Rickman for Film Quarterly, who stated that it was "Sure to be a landmark in televisual studies" and that it was "the first work I know of to take the fans of such shows as Star Trek and Beauty and the Beast seriously."[3]

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References
  1. Jenkins, Henry (1992). Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415905729.
  2. Jenkins, Henry (2012-11-26). "Textual Poachers Turns Twenty!". Henry Jenkins. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  3. Rickman, Gregg (July 1993). "Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture Henry Jenkins". Film Quarterly. 46 (4): 63–63. doi:10.2307/1213185.
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