Fans of film franchises - the online alien universe: a study of online participation as a catalyst for fan-created objects that expand the film universe
- Vermaak, Janelle Leigh, Moodley, Subeshini
- Authors: Vermaak, Janelle Leigh , Moodley, Subeshini
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Motion picture audiences Fans (Persons) Motion picture industry
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/13938 , vital:27359
- Description: This thesis will analyse the ways in which fan participation and creation in online communities extends the film world beyond the film object, and the extent to which fandom influences identity within the fan group. The study will seek to determine the ways in which fans become part of the franchise through online engagement, as well as the manner in which they appropriate the franchise identity through their creations. The central hypothesis of the study is that online participation and creation amplifies fan connection with the film franchise, and increases the sense of identification with the world and characters of the films. By being or becoming fans, and engaging with other fans in online and real spaces, they are joining a larger community of people who seem to have blurred the lines between fiction and reality by engaging in a fictional, virtual space as a source of real personal entertainment, based on an anchor media product. This appropriation is enabled through digital communities which expand and extend the reach of fan interaction and further develop the identity of the individual as ‘fan’. Thus, the study will reflect on the implications of fan engagement with the film franchise in the digital space.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Vermaak, Janelle Leigh , Moodley, Subeshini
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Motion picture audiences Fans (Persons) Motion picture industry
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/13938 , vital:27359
- Description: This thesis will analyse the ways in which fan participation and creation in online communities extends the film world beyond the film object, and the extent to which fandom influences identity within the fan group. The study will seek to determine the ways in which fans become part of the franchise through online engagement, as well as the manner in which they appropriate the franchise identity through their creations. The central hypothesis of the study is that online participation and creation amplifies fan connection with the film franchise, and increases the sense of identification with the world and characters of the films. By being or becoming fans, and engaging with other fans in online and real spaces, they are joining a larger community of people who seem to have blurred the lines between fiction and reality by engaging in a fictional, virtual space as a source of real personal entertainment, based on an anchor media product. This appropriation is enabled through digital communities which expand and extend the reach of fan interaction and further develop the identity of the individual as ‘fan’. Thus, the study will reflect on the implications of fan engagement with the film franchise in the digital space.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Part one: "Horror versus terror in the body genre" : part two: "Silent planet"
- Authors: Vermaak, Janelle Leigh
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Horror films -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:8406 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/636 , Horror films -- History and criticism
- Description: This article seeks to investigate this balance and to interrogate the difference between horror and terror in an attempt to contribute to the development of a systematic genre typology. A brief history of the genre will be given, after which the focus will fall on contemporary Horror film, paying specific attention to the relationship between violence and horror, the theme of sacrificial violence, and the transgression of ‘natural’ laws. An eclectic approach is followed, drawing from literary theory, theology, psychology, and, of course, film theory.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Vermaak, Janelle Leigh
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Horror films -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:8406 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/636 , Horror films -- History and criticism
- Description: This article seeks to investigate this balance and to interrogate the difference between horror and terror in an attempt to contribute to the development of a systematic genre typology. A brief history of the genre will be given, after which the focus will fall on contemporary Horror film, paying specific attention to the relationship between violence and horror, the theme of sacrificial violence, and the transgression of ‘natural’ laws. An eclectic approach is followed, drawing from literary theory, theology, psychology, and, of course, film theory.
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- Date Issued: 2007
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