ENGLISH

It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon

By Ben Bolling

Book information

Publisher
Publishers, Inc., McFarland & Company
Year
2014
ISBN
9781476614472
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
760 kB (777781 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-04 08:01:12
Sociology; Nonfiction; SOC022000

Description

This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer. Investigations range from the practices of fans costuming themselves to the talk of corporate marketers. The collection seeks to expand fan studies, exploring Comic-Con International more deeply than any publication before it.

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