Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse

Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse

Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse

Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse

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Overview

Since the 1997 publication of the first Harry Potter novel, the "Potterverse" has seen the addition of eight feature films (with a ninth in production), the creation of the interactive Pottermore© website, the release of myriad video games, the construction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, several companion books (such as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), critical essays and analyses, and the 2016 debut of the original stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

This collection of new essays interprets the Wizarding World beyond the books and films through the lens of convergence culture. Contributors explore how online communities tackle Sorting and games like the Quidditch Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, and analyze how Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are changing fandom and the canon alike.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476632537
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 02/09/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 223
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Amanda Firestone is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa. Her research focuses on the heroine’s coming-of-age in Young Adult Literature. Leisa A. Clark is a professor of arts and humanities, teaching diverse class subjects such as art history, media studies, and film history. She is the author of a variety of books, ranging from fictional comedic space opera to critical edited collections. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Amanda Firestone is an assistant professor at the University of Tampa in the Department of Communication, teaching media studies and digital identity.
Leisa A. Clark is a professor of arts and humanities, teaching diverse class subjects such as art history, media studies, and film history. She is the author of a variety of books, ranging from fictional comedic space opera to critical edited collections. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface (Leisa A. Clark)
Wizarding Whirled: An Introduction
(Amanda Firestone with Leisa A. Clark)
I. The Great Hall: Fan Spaces and Places
The (Virtual) Race for House Cup Glory: Hogwarts Running
Club and the Journey to #SoMuchGood (Amanda Firestone)
Fiber Fiction: How Two Different Affinity Spaces Developed into Another Potter World (Gail A. Bondi)
Magic Goes Muggle: Inclusiveness in Quidditch as a “Spin-Off”
­Practice (Alena Brunner)
Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter: A Primer
in Contemporary Media Concepts (Carissa Ann Baker)
It’s Real for (All of) Us: Wizard Rock and the Audience as ­Co-Creator (Anne Collins Smith)
II. The Forbidden Forest: Marginalized Outsiders
Inferior Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Shrinking
of Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws to Fit Gendered Space (Elise Payne)
Fitting Him for Leather Trousers: Fanon and the Reclamation
of Draco Malfoy and Slytherin House (Kali DeDominicis)
“Witches live among us!” The Minorities Battle Prejudice
in Fantastic Beasts (Valerie Estelle Frankel)
Fantastic ­Non-Wizard Entities and How to Other Them: Representations of the Other in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Haley Herfurth and Clair McLafferty)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child (Emily E. Roach)
III. The Professors’ Lounge: Creating Cultural Connection
Gaining the ­Grown-Up Perspective in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Tara Moore)
The Cloak of Many Canons: Establishing ­Cross-Contextual
­Canonicity After Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Katelynn E. Carver)
Of Memes and Muggles: Harry Potter, Facebook and the 2016 ­Presidential Campaign in the United States (Björn Sundmark)
Who Tells Me Where I Ought to Be? The Sorting Community ­Hogwarts Is Home and Pottermore (Jonathan A. Rose)
Muggles and Magic in America: Cultural Appropriation, Authorial Intent and Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Leisa A. Clark)
Epilogue: A Note of Caution Amid a Chorus of Praise for the ­Ever-Expanding Potterverse (Mary F. Pharr)
About the Contributors
Index
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