Tag: reboots

• 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