between professionals, amateurs and fans keep the entertainment and media industries updated. Starting with fans, they are truly the supporters in this industry. The fans are the one’s mostly buying our movies & games, following the professionals on social media accounts, giving the professionals and even amateurs inspiration. Fans even influence the work of professionals by their feedback to the products professionals create through the use of social media. The fans view the industry as a way for leisure
A media Fan is seen as a subject that is trivialized and dismissed and so this essay will investigate how a fan is a ‘complex and contradictory arena for critical enquiry’ A fan is depicted to be obsessed, lonely and false worshippers but fans can be more than that as they can be active producers that develop their own meanings from the media. This essay will discuss how fans are seen as destructive and deviant as well as how they can be useful textual poachers who construct their own culture from
called fans. The word fan was said to have stemmed as a shortened form of the word
From fan-made movies to memes, the fandom that surrounds the television show Breaking Bad is one rich in creativity. Like other fan cultures, the Breaking Bad fandom has a way of ‘poaching’ the original text and reconstructing it in order to relay certain ideas and ideologies that may not have been intended. In this essay, I will analyze the fandom that surrounds the television show Breaking Bad, how I participate and interact in this particular replay culture, and how gender roles and norms are
How does someone know if they are truly happy? Much of society have come to associate happiness with the pursuits of personal pleasures or that which makes us “feels good”. When we feel good we display positive expression of emotions such as joy, laughter, kindness and fewer negative emotions such as anger, hate, and sadness. To some people our happiness is already determined through our genes. Some people seek happiness through money and material possessions. However, many would argue that true
like the press, the public hasn 't exactly been kind to the brony. At best, the subculture gets written off as extremely dorky—a group of fedora-sporting nerds who live in their parents ' basements and spend all their time watching cartoons, making fan art and getting into pedantic arguments about My Little Pony on the internet. At worst, they 're accused not only of clopping, but of being pedophiles because, really, who else besides little girls would be this interested in a children 's show aimed
In the article “A Study of Fan Culture”, J. S. Chen (2007) explored Anime/manga and Cosplay as a subculture and how the methodology of Anime/manga and Cosplay can help educators to fill the gap between adolescents subculture and mainstream school culture. According to Chen.J (2007), “Anime/manga fans have been forming a culture of their own specific type, in which a Comic World convention is the most intensive sociocultural event. This has an enormously influential effect on youngsters as this subcultural
I saw a video trailer for a full-length movie about a project called, “The Landfill Philharmonic” and it was inspiring. I can imagine a world is filled of garage, but people don’t give up and start create something new. I never seen an instrument is made of garage and how they play with it. It is telling me that no matter how darkness the life give us, we will always find a light. In this trailer, it is about people who is very poor and lives in the garbage. They had a idea to make instruments and
They become the persona that they want to be, someone different or perhaps similar to themselves. In her article, “What Art Educators Can Learn from the Fan-based Artmaking of Adolescents and Young Adults”, Marjorie Cohee Manifold explains how cosplayers seek other’s advice, stating that “Whether they created exact copies or adaptations of an original artist’s work, fanartists and cosplayers turned to peers
3.1 Survey Research into the SU fandom will begin with an online survey. The survey will consist of ten questions and will be focused on where and why people watch, how they feel about certain aspects of the show, and how present they are in the online SU community [See 7.1.2]. Due to the show’s progressive nature, sexuality is asked to be defined but is not essential. The survey method has been chosen because the study is “interested in causes of phenomena” (De Vaus 2014, 5) which,
In much of ancient Greek and Roman literature, the gods are important characters. They help to drive the plot along, either by being benevolent figures, helping the human main characters, or as vengeful monsters bent on obstructing the journey of the protagonist. The gods can have both human and divine qualities. Quite the same, the humans in these ancient texts can be portrayed as having divine qualities, especially protagonists. Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, while different in styles
Fanfiction. It seems to be a taboo word around here. People associate it with Fifty Shades of Grey or psychopathic fangirls fantasizing about boy band members and embarrassingly, there is some measure of truth in that, but that is not the whole picture. Some of the best stories I have ever read have come from fandoms, and I am a picky reader. No amount of quoted popularity was enough to win over me and my unusual taste for Lemony Snicket, and yet, here I found myself immensely drawn to the works
Justin lovchuk 4th hour October,16, 2014 Fans Of The Game I was over at my friend Devin’s house as we were happily and competitively playing flag football in his basement as I was about to get the first down we hear a voice say “Justin your mom’s here it’s time to go.” We were saddened that the fun had to end. But I still sluggishly walked to the car. My mom says “I have your Tigers gear in the car.’ Which cheers me up as I remember we were going to the Tigers game, though, I respond with “can
Turning Severus Snape’s life upside down - Motivations and reasons behind reading and writing fan fictions For as almost everyone knows at least the name Harry Potter, many would be surprised to know how many versions besides the original canon exist. Some fans even go so far to make it their mission to rewrite all seven books through the lens of other characters. One of the longest stories of that kind written in German can be found on the website FanFiktion.de, consisting out of 629 chapters
The research topic I am go to choose is on sport fans .A sport fan is a passionate follower of a sport who is usually as a spectator. I will like to understand the different type of sport’s fan because everyone supports his or her specific team in a different way. I will like to know how sports affect relationships with their friends and family members, how does sport affect their daily life, do they have a specific chant or ritual, how they act against someone who doesn’t follow their specific sports
with what is happening around them. Sluggers fans are not the same. They're fans because that is what they were born into, always knowing that they were Sluggars fans. It is inevitable that people will choose their someone the relate to or they see as an important impact on the team. When something happens to the team favorite, whether it be injury, family issues, or retirement the atmesphere of the fans completely changes. Boddlebrooks was the Sluggars fans' favorite. He was including, energized, and
winning in a significant way. The new policy of Fan Duel and DraftKings has been stated as “The companies essentially banned their own and rival-company employees from playing daily games for money on their sites” (Needlemen, 2015). This recent implementation of the two companies’ policy has been likely to be motivated by the scandal of one DraftKings’ employee releasing company’s data and winning $350,000 in an online contest from its rival company, Fan Duel. For such a billion-dollar industry like
technological advancements have made keeping something from others virtually impossible. Although, in the 19th century, it was extremely likely that one could take a secret, even of the utmost importance, to the grave. In Oscar Wilde's “Lady Windermere's Fan” the main source of conflict stems from the relationship between Lord Windermere and Mrs. Erlynne. They are the holders of a secret that, if revealed, could entirely alter their lives. They are struggling with the decision of being truthful, or protecting
One of my pet peeves is when I see people have three favorite football teams . Also when someone was a fan of one team one year, but then next year just because another team won the superbowl they have a new favorite team. Bandwagon fans get annoying to me because they think that they are a really big but once another team is good and wins a lot they change to the winning team. I know a person that has a patriots, seahawks, broncos, and a lions jersey. Anytime one of these teams win a superbowl he
Fantasy football fans will be scouring all the usual suspects for football facts, predictions, myths, legends and lies during the preseason. Not just because football fans are info junkies, but because they plan on trouncing their coworkers, neighbors, and in-laws in the next season of fantasy football leagues. Crazy fools that they are will probably find nothing but reams and reams of statistics. So unless they all received a PHD in statistical analysis during their drunken college years, they really