Fandom in Science Fiction:

Selected Bibliography of Academic Scholarship

Robin Anne Reid

Bacon-Smith, Camille. Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular
Myth. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1992.
. Science Fiction Culture. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000.
Bale, John. "Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues (Book)." Sociological Review 46.3 (1998):
614-16.
Ben-Yehuda, Nachman, and Robert M. Philmus. "Sociological Reflections on the History of
Science Fiction in Israel." Science Fiction Studies 13.38 (1986): 64-78.
Brooker, Will. "Internet Fandom and the Continuing Narratives of Star Wars, Blade Runner and
Alien." Alien Zone II: The Spaces of Science-Fiction Cinema. Ed. Annette Kuhn. London:
Verso, 1999. 50-72.
Brown, Jeffrey A. "Comic Book Fandom and Cultural Capital." Journal of Popular Culture 30.4
(1997): 13-32.
Clerc, Susan. "Estrogen Brigades and 'Big Tits' Threads: Media Fandom On-Line and Off." The
Cybercultures Reader. Eds. David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy. London: Routledge, 2000.
216-29.
Cumberland, Sharon. "Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture." MIT
Communications Forum. Jan 25, 2000. Web. Sep 29, 2005. <http://web.mit.edu/comm-
forum/projects/cumberland.html>.
Dee, Amy-Chinn, and Milly Williamson, ed. The European Journal of Cultural Studies. Special
Edition: The Vampire Spike in Text and Fandom. 8.3 (2005).
Drown, Eric. "Business Girls and Beset Men in Pulp Science Fiction and Science Fiction
Fandom." FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal Dedicated to Critical and
Creative Work in the Realms of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Surrealism,
Myth, Folklore, and Other Supernatural Genres 7.1 (2006): 5-35.
Erisman, Fred. "Sharyn Mccrumb's Comic Critiques of SF Fandom." Extrapolation: A Journal
of Science Fiction and Fantasy 40.1 (1999): 80-89.
Gray, Jonathan. "Antifandom and the Moral Text: Television without Pity and Textual
Dislike." American Behavioral Scientist 48.7 (2005): 840-58.
. "New Audiences, New Textualities: Anti-Fans and Non-Fans". International Journal of
Cultural Studies 6.1 (2003): 64-81.
Herbrik, Regine. "Jenseits der Sterne. Gemeinschaft und Identitt in Fankulturen: Zur
Konstitution des Star Trek-Fandoms." Soziologische Revue 31.2 (2008): 184-88.
Hicks, James Scott. "Science-Fiction Fandom and Conventions." Twentieth-Century American
Science Fiction Writers Part II: M-Z. Ed. David Cowart and Thomas L. Wymer. Dictionary
of Literary Biography 8 (2). Detroit: Gale, 1981. 273-79.
Hills, Matt. Fan Cultures. London: Routledge, 2002.
. "Star Wars in Fandom, Film Theory, and the Museum: The Cultural Status of the Cult
Blockbuster." Movie Blockbusters. Ed. Julian Stringer. London: Routledge, 2003. 178-89.
Horwitz, Linda Diane. "Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online." New Media &
Society 8.6 (2006): 1044-45.
Hunt, Nathan. "The Importance of Trivia: Ownership, Exclusion and Authority in Science Fiction
Fandom." Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste. Ed. Mark
Jancovich et al. Inside Popular Film. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. 185-201.
Jancovich, Mark. "Cult Fictions: Cult Movies, Subcultural Capital and the Production of Cultural
Distinctions." Cultural Studies 16.2 (2002): 306-22.
Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. New York:
Routledge, 1992.
Jindra, Michael. "Star Trek Fandom as a Religious Phenomenon." Sociology of Religion 55.1
(1994): 27-51.
Kellner, Douglas, and Heather Collette-Van Deraa. "Fandom: Identities and Communities in a
Mediated World." Contemporary Sociology 37.6 (2008): 559-60.
Kennedy, Helen. "Beyond Anonymity, or Future Directions for Internet Identity Research." New
Media & Society 8.6 (Dec. 2006): 859-876.
Latham, Rob. "New Worlds and the New Wave in Fandom: Fan Culture and the Reshaping of
Science Fiction in the Sixties." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy
47.2 (2006): 296-315.
Lee, Hye-Kyung. "Participatory Media Fandom: A Case Study of Anime Fansubbing."
Media, Culture & Society 33.8 (2011): 1131-47.
Sequential Tarts: Gender Intervention in American Comic Book Culture. 2006 Annual Meeting.
Montreal: American Sociological Association, 2006.
McLelland, Mark. "The World of Yaoi: The Internet, Censorship and the Global 'Boys' Love'
Fandom." Australian Feminist Law Journal 23 (2005): 61-77.
McLelland, Mark, and Yoo Seunghyun. "The International Yaoi Boys' Love Fandom and the
Regulation of Virtual Child Pornography: The Implications of Current Legislation."
Sexuality Research & Social Policy: Journal of NSRC 4.1 (2007): 93-104.
Moskowitz, Sam. "The Immortal Storm II: A History of Science-Fiction Fandom, IV" Fantasy
Commentator 9.2 (1997): 128-32.
. "The Immortal Storm II: A History of Science-Fiction Fandom, III." Fantasy
Commentator 9.1 (1996): 63-70, 77-78.
. "The Immortal Storm II: A History of Science-Fiction Fandom, II." Fantasy Commentator
8.3-4 (1995): 278-88.
. "The Immortal Storm II: A History of Science-Fiction Fandom, I." Fantasy Commentator
8.1-2 (1993): 107-20, 13.
. "The Origins of Science Fiction Fandom: A Reconstruction." Foundation: The Review of
Science Fiction 48 (1990): 5-25.
Murray, Simone. "'Celebrating the Story the Way It Is': Cultural Studies, Corporate Media
and the Contested Utility of Fandom." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
18.1 (2004): 7-25.
Obst, Patricia, Lucy Zinkiewicz, and Sandy G. Smith. "Sense of Community in Science Fiction
Fandom, Part 1: Understanding Sense of Community in an International Community of
Interest." Journal of Community Psychology 30.1 (2002): 87-103.
. "Sense of Community in Science Fiction Fandom, Part 2: Comparing Neighborhood and
Interest Group Sense of Community." Journal of Community Psychology 30.1 (2002):
105-17.
Porter, Jennifer E. "All I Ever Want to Be, I Learned from Playing Klingon: Sex, Honor, and
Cultural Critique in Star Trek Fandom." Alien Worlds: The Social and Religious
Dimension of Extraterrestrial Contact. Ed. Diana G. Tumminia. Syracuse: Syracuse UP,
2007. 217-36.
---. "'I Am a Jedi': Star Wars Fandom, Religious Belief, and the 2001 Census." Finding the
Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, & Critics. Ed. Matthew Kapell,
Wilhelm and John Shelton Lawrence. New York: Lang, 2006. 95-112.
Rabkin, Eric S. "Science Fiction and the Future of Criticism." PMLA: Publications of the
Modern Language Association of America 119.3 (2004): 457-73.
Rudski, Jeffrey Michael, Carli Segal, and E. L. I. Kallen. "Harry Potter and the End of the
Road: Parallels with Addiction." Addiction Research & Theory 17.3 (2009): 260-77.
Sandvoss, Cornel. "One-Dimensional Fan: Toward an Aesthetic of Fan Texts." American
Behavioral Scientist 48.7 (2005): 822-39.
Shefrin, Elana. "Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Participatory Fandom: Mapping New
Congruencies between the Internet and Media Entertainment Culture." Critical Studies in
Media Communication 21.3 (2004): 26181.
Stanford, Lois M. "Language: A View from the Ranks of Science Fiction Fandom." The Twenty-
Second Lacus Forum 1995. Ed. Bates Hoffer. Chapel Hill: Linguistics Association of
Can. & US, 1996. 399-410.
Virnoche, Mary E. "Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online." Information Society
23.5 (2007): 421-22.
Williams, Michael. "The Cult of the Mohicans: American Fans on the Electronic Frontier."
Journal of Popular Culture 40.3 (2007): 526-54.
Woledge, Elizabeth. "Decoding Desire: From Kirk and Spock to K/S." Social Semiotics 15.2
(2005): 235-50.