Fanthropology: Professional Fans
I happened to catch two stories on Twitter this weekend from comic book professionals about other comic book professionals that seemed to echo one...
Fanthropology: Black Panther Excitement
For several years now, Marvel has done a good job of generating excitement for their movies. A combination of the individual movies being done well...
Fanthropology: Spoilers
I have spent a good chunk of the weekend avoiding spoilers for The Last Jedi. The Star Wars films are one of the few that will actually get me into...
Fanthropology: An Anti-Fan’s Perception
Demonstrations opposing American involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1964. Different people opposed the war for different reasons, of course, and...
Fanthropology: Saying Thanks
Thanksgiving is later this week here in the United States. Families and friends often gather together over a good meal, and give thanks for whatever...
Fanthropology: Who Changes More?
My brother and I grew up in the same house. We had pretty much the same experiences: we had the same teachers, went on the same family vacations, saw...
Fanthropology: Self-Storytelling
Everyone has a mental story about themselves. A basic narrative about who they are as a person. Kind of an expansion on the basic idea of...
Fanthropology: Pythonists
When they were first casting Spamalot, the stage production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hank Azaria landed the role of Sir Lancelot, and most...
Fanthropology: Where Fan Studies Have Come
I first became interested in studying fandom in the late 1990s. Henry Jenkins' ground-breaking Textual Poachers had come out in 1992 and his...
Fanthropology: Fans vs Fandom
Today's question is: can you be a fan without being in fandom? And it's corollary: can you be in fandom without being a fan? Perhaps...