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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1293276
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 | ||||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
| Funder: | British Academy (BA) | ||||||
| Grant number: | Inheriting British Television Project (2013-2014) |
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