AUDIENCES & FAN CULTURE (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: LO1 – demonstrate demonstrate basic knowledge of the key issues, problems, and contexts for understanding audiences and Fan culture within film and screen Studies; LO2 – analyze Analyse phenomena related to media audiences and fan culture in light of the theories and concepts discussed in class; LO3 – apply Apply the research methods suitable to the audience and fan culture issues in chosen topics, both in global and national contexts.

Topics:

1. Introduction to Audience and Fan Culture;
2. Taste and Politics of Taste : Bourdieu’s “Distinction”;
3. Audience, Film Communities and Screen Culture;
4. Fragmenting and Targeting the Audience: Producers’ Perspectives;
5. Audience, Film Policies, and Censorship;
6. Researching Audience and Fandom;
7. Workshop on Mid Term Project;
8. Introduction to Fandom and Fan Studies? : Fiske, Jenkins, Hills;
9. Fans and Anti-Fans;
10. Fan Texts, Rituals and Celebration;
11. Fandom and Film Tourism;
12. Scholar-Fan, Fan-Scholar, Aca-Fan;
13. Workshop on Final Project.