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The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and CommunicationSlash

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication: Slash [ Slash describes creative fan works featuring same‐sex romantic and sexual relationships, often expanding on homosocial bonds in the source texts. Broadly, it can be used as a general descriptive genre of homoerotic transformative art, but more commonly it means a specific historical, social, and economic category connected to media fandom, the creative primarily female fan communities of live‐action Western TV shows from the 1960s onward. Slash fan fiction has been a central focus of fan and audience studies: its primarily female readers and writers as well as its explicit homoerotic prose defies easy explanations of women's genres and media receptions. Moreover, its often‐aggressive alternate readings of popular media texts exemplify reception models of resistant readings. Following greater visibility of queer characters and relationships on screen, slash continues to be popular especially in its exploration of non‐normative sexualities and sexual identities. ] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and CommunicationSlash

Part of the The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication Book Series
Editors: Ross, Karen; Bachmann, Ingrid; Cardo, Valentina; Moorti, Sujata; Scarcelli, Marco
Busse, Kristina
The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication — Mar 30, 2020
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Copyright
Copyright © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
ISBN
9781119429128
Pages
1–5
DOI
10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc038
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Abstract

[ Slash describes creative fan works featuring same‐sex romantic and sexual relationships, often expanding on homosocial bonds in the source texts. Broadly, it can be used as a general descriptive genre of homoerotic transformative art, but more commonly it means a specific historical, social, and economic category connected to media fandom, the creative primarily female fan communities of live‐action Western TV shows from the 1960s onward. Slash fan fiction has been a central focus of fan and audience studies: its primarily female readers and writers as well as its explicit homoerotic prose defies easy explanations of women's genres and media receptions. Moreover, its often‐aggressive alternate readings of popular media texts exemplify reception models of resistant readings. Following greater visibility of queer characters and relationships on screen, slash continues to be popular especially in its exploration of non‐normative sexualities and sexual identities. ]

Published: Mar 30, 2020

Keywords: fan fiction; homosociality; media fandom; media reception; transformative works

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