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Fandom’s paratextual memory : remembering, reconstructing, and repatriating “lost” Doctor Who

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Garde-Hansen, Joanne and Hills, Matt (2017) Fandom’s paratextual memory : remembering, reconstructing, and repatriating “lost” Doctor Who. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34 (2). pp. 158-167. doi:10.1080/15295036.2017.1293276 ISSN 1529-5036 .

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1293276

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Abstract

In this article, we aim to bring fan studies and memory studies into greater dialogue through the concept of “paratextual memory”. For media fans, paratextual memory facilitates a sense of “having been there” at key moments of T.V. broadcasting, sustaining fan authenticity and status. We focus on B.B.C. T.V.’s science fiction series Doctor Who (1963–) as a case study due to the fact that the program's “missing episodes” (wiped by the B.B.C.) have been reconstructed by fans through “remixes” of off-air sound recordings and “tele-snap” visual records. Unusually, then, fans’ paratextual memory and related forms of productivity have taken the place of archived television. We go on to address how fan-archivists and entrepreneurs have sought to recover and repatriate “lost” Doctor Who. Processes of fannish paratextual memory typically draw on heritage discourses to valorize “classic” Doctor Who, and fans’ paratextual memory has thus fed into the B.B.C.’s recommodification of “archive” T.V.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies
Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Science fiction fans, Memory, Doctor Who (Ficticious Character)
Journal or Publication Title: Critical Studies in Media Communication
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1529-5036
Official Date: 16 March 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
16 March 2017Available
1 February 2017Accepted
Volume: 34
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 158-167
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2017.1293276
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 11 May 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 16 October 2018
Funder: British Academy (BA)
Grant number: Inheriting British Television Project (2013-2014)

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