Tag: fan fiction

• WrestlePosium I Presentation

  

  Earlier this year I organized, ran, and presented at the inaugural WrestlePosium open online symposium for the Professional Wrestling Studies Association. My presentation concerned the work I have been doing looking at wrestling fans writing slash for the characters of Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa. The entire presentation can viewed here. The other presentations from […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 18, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Professional Wrestling

  fan fiction, fan studies, Fandom, fanfic, Fanfiction, fans, Johnny Gargano, Professional Wrestling, Professional Wrestling Studies Association, PWSA, Slash, Tommaso Ciampa, WrestlePosium, WrestlePosiumI

• When the Rebel Heart Met the Blackheart: Slash in Professional Wrestling

  

  NOTE: This post was originally posted on the Professional Wrestling Studies Association blog and can now be found at this link. I’ve been working on this project for awhile now, and this presentation from MPCA/ACA 2019 contains my preliminary results on slash fanfic that feature NXT wrestlers Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa. This work began […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 28, 2020

  Audience/Reception Studies, Sexuality

  Decoding, emotionality, emotions, Encoding, encoding-decoding-recoding model, fan fiction, Professional Wrestling, Recoding, Slash, Tommaso Ciampa

• The Pop Culture Lens on Yojimbo (1961)

  

  In the twenty-seventh episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I welcome back friend of the podcast Joe Belfeuil to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s samurai classic Yojimbo (1961). In this episode, the conversation focuses on the film’s position as a transnational and transcultural pop culture text that acts as a link in a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 29, 2016

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  Akira Kurosawa, fan fiction, Fandom, game theory, Japanese, masculinity, ronin, samurai, Transcultural, transnational, Westerns, Yojimbo

• This Jedi’s Reaction to The Force Awakens: An Autoethnography in Fractured Fandom

  

  I didn’t go see Star Wars: The Force Awakens when it was released in theaters. I couldn’t bring myself to. And this is coming from someone who saw — willingly and enthusiastically — each of the prequels in midnight openings. I saw Phantom Menace numerous times in the theater — even while doing an internship […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 3, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  Adaptation, Anakin, autoethnography, BB-8, canon, Chewbacca, Disney, expanded universe, fan fiction, fan service, Fandom, Finn, fractured fandom, G, George Lucas, Han Solo, J. J. Abrams, Jedi, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Poe, prequels, reboots, Rey, Slash, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Force Awakens

• The Pop Culture Lens: Episode on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Fandom

  

  On a special episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss a subject that has been one we have debated numerous times in our private lives and has become one that I have been focusing on as a research project: fandom, is it good or bad? We begin the conversation with […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 15, 2015

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  “television-as-content”, C2E2, Chip Zdarsky, comic industry, Comics, culture wars, Dark Horse, DC, fan art, fan communities, fan fiction, fan studies, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, GamerGate, identity, Image, insularity, Marvel Comics, MCU, Other Space, Paul Feig, Sad Puppies, Sex Criminals, Valiant, walled gardens

• Pop Culture Lens Podcast: The X-Files

  

  In the sixth episode of our ongoing podcast, The Pop Culture Lens, Christopher Olson and I discuss my favorite television series of all time, The X-Files. I was a huge, huge, huge fan of this series; I can still recall sitting there when the show premiered, on that magical Friday night back in 1993, with […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 28, 2015

  Fandom, Television Studies

  Adaptation, anti-vaxxers, birthers, Chris Carter, conspiracy theories, David Duchovny, fan art, fan fiction, Fandom, fans, Fox Network, Gillian Anderson, government mistrust, identity, nostalgia, reboot, rehash, revivial, supernatural, The X-Files, truthers, Xphiles