Tag: power dynamics

• Trauma and Fractured Fandom

  

  This blog post contains my presentation at MPCA/ACA 2019 from our panel on mental health and fandom. This presentation is the first step in a deeper analysis of my fractured fandom work to understand the traumatic experiences fans expressed in their self-interviews. “fear fearfearfearfear feeling hella unsafe”: The Trauma of Fractured Fandoms As a brief […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 25, 2019

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Fandom

  anxiety, Brenda Dervin, communication problems, defensiveness, Depression, difference of opinion, fan community, fanatacism, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, harassment, insecurity, mental health, mental health issues, miscommunication, policing boundaries, power dynamics, power plays, rationalization, Sense-Making Methodology, stereotypes, stigma, stress, trauma

• Backwards and in High Heels

  

  In the forty-second episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss the on-screen dancing duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. In this episode, the co-hosts analyze the star personas of the classic duo for how they represent issues regarding gender and power dynamics. They interrogate the now famous saying that Rogers […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 12, 2018

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  archetypes, backwards and in high heels, Classic Hollywood, dance, Fred Astaire, gender dyanmics, Ginger Rogers, grace, iconography, power dynamics, romance, style

• The Fractured Fandom Book

  

  My project all started with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. In 2010 a new animated series was released based on the old toy line (I had these toys as a kid). What amazed everyone is that a toy line and series meant for girls started to develop a following of adult men, who took […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 19, 2017

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  bronies, communicatings, cyberassault, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, dialogue, disengage, fake geek girl, fan harassment, fractured fandom, gaps, harassment, listening, My Little Pony, policing boundaries, power dynamics