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Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises

Contributor(s): Salter, Anastasia (Author), Stanfill, Mel (Author)

ISBN: 9781496830470

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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Pub Date: October 1, 2020

Dewey: 306.48

LCCN: 2020017011

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.53" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.77 lbs) 234 pages

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Description: A book-length study of the unique relationship between the audience and creators who are considered to be trusted fans

Brief description: Anastasia Salter is associate professor in the Department of English at University of Central Florida. Salter is author of Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects and What Is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books and coauthor of Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, and Identity Policing and Flash: Building the Interactive Web.

Review Quotes: The fan and auteur axes that Salter and Stanfill introduce as a taxonomic strategy will prove a useful tool for understanding and analyzing how elements of the role might be used by a variety of author-figures as legitimating strategies.--Laurel P. Rogers "Transformative Works and Cultures"

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