Tag: Hollywood

• Customer-Fans and the Happily Exploited

  

  Time for another story (I appear to have a lot to tell!); this time, about the experiences I had at the biggest comic book convention in the world, San Diego Comic Con International. When I graduated college, I moved to Los Angeles and ended up working at an agency that represents writers, directors and producers. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 12, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Fandom, Uncategorized

  Co-optation, Comic Con International, customer-fans, diffusion of innovation, exploitation, fan communities, fan conventions, fan labor, Fandom, Fandom Marketing, fans, Halle Berry, Hollywood, loyal consumers, Marketing, opinion leaders, political economic theory, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC, social networks, Viral marketing

• The Pop Culture Lens Podcast Goes Live!

  

  Christopher Olson (of the blog Seems Obvious to Me) and I present a new podcast, The Pop Culture Lens, where we discuss the media of the past through the lens of today to understand how relevant it is to our modern lives. You can follow the podcast on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook, or get the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 24, 2014

  Communication Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies

  academic, books, counter-culture, cultural, Easy Rider, economic, games, hippie culture, historical, Hollywood, ideological, Media, movies, music, New Wave, podcast, political, Pop culture, Pop Culture Lens, popular culture, relevance, scholarship, social, Stories, Television