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Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 | 6:27 pm |
Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 1/12/13 http://fanthropology.livejournal.com/513023.html CBS News’s website reported that "Glee" stars Lea Michele and Chris Colfer won back-to-back [People's Choice] awards for comedic TV actress and actor. Both thanked the show's fans, with Colfer adding, "it is so flattering to be exploited in your fan fiction."From msilverstar: Radio Times’s Jack Seale interviewed comedian John Finnemore; when asked whether he’d ever shown an early Sherlock Holmes sketch to current collaborator Benedict Cumberbatch, he replied no. ”Benedict might look at me a bit funny. It'd be basically, here's some fanfic.”Romance writer Vicki Essex told The Torontoist’s Kelli Korducki Back in 2005 or 2006 I started writing fan-fiction about Avatar: The Last Airbender. I got a lot of good response from that, so I knew I had some skills and that I had the ability to write a project from start to finish. A few months into working at Harlequin, I’d read quite a few of the books and I decided I should try.Similarly, Harriet Rice interviewed local author Christine Seaton for Burnett County Sentinel: Initially, Chris’ intent was to write television scripts. She toyed with that for a while, trying out “FanFiction,” a website where avid fans of particular books or movies go on to write whole new stories created around existing characters. (Let’s hope Seaton just mentioned something about fanfic and then Rice did enough googling to get herself in trouble.) Heidi pointed me toward a WSJ.com piece by Ben “The Man” Schrank about how he faked a speech at an HP con; the con featured, among other things, jokes about fan fiction that I didn't get. Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz told Collider.com’s Christina Radish There would be some fan fiction things that would scoop us. It happened a couple times, where I thought, “Well, we can’t do that!”Nathalie Atkinson referenced Downton Abbey’s erotic fanfic in National Post. In New Statesman, Bim Adewunmi wrote of Fraggle Rock I had been obsessed with this show, going as far as writing up exciting fanfic for the Doozers, a move which, with hindsight, makes me view my younger self ever more favourably.In California Literary Review, Matthew Newlin wrote Coming into prominence just as The Sopranos was reaching its zenith, Lost became the obsession of many, spawning fan fiction, books and websites dedicated solely to extrapolating clues from the show’s numerous hidden messages.CB Droege reviewed Firefly: A Celebration for TG Daily, writing that the compendium includes four in-canon short-stories which continue the adventures of the Serenity Crew, written by some of the writers for the show. They don’t have nearly the charm that the show itself has, perhaps, but they are great to simply consume as a Firefly fan who can’t have had enough – and doesn’t want to resort to fan-fiction.From Proactive Investors: Industrialization did more than just extend the average human lifespan. It led a greater percentage of the population to decide that humans were meant to be ballerinas, full-time musicians, mathematicians, athletes, fashion designers, yoga masters, fan-fiction authors, and folks with one-of-a kind titles on their business cards. But mostly we just drive kids in circles. Harrison Berry observed on Boise Weekly that Whether it's that sci-fi novel your uncle's writing or that West Wing fan fiction you've been kicking around in your head, most people feel like they have a book in them.On 225 Baton Rouge, Jeff Roedel wrote Don't let the direct-to-DVD title fool you, John Hillcoat's Nick Cave-written period shoot 'em up Lawless is an intriguing paradox of historical fact and the type of heady myth-spinning that could make most syrupy fan fiction feel, excuse the pun, but dry by comparison.In Religion Dispatches, Linda Kay Klein reviewed Tanya Erzen’s Fanpire, writing Erzen describes a world in which “Fanpires” make pilgrimages to the real-life town in which the book is set, write blogs and fan fiction (the most famous of which became Fifty Shades of Grey), and buy buy buy branded Twilight merchandise between the release of the books and movies to keep the magic of the series alive.Finally, here’s Deirdre Macken in The Australian: So what's replaced readers? What is happening to all those words published by so many? Instead of readers, a writer today will have fans who pay homage to the author by plagiarising their style in fan fiction. | 6:27 pm |
Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 9/22/12 http://fanthropology.livejournal.com/508697.html Express’s Nicole Carmichael asked Will Fan Ficiton Create 50 Shades of Downton?, and proceeded to mangle at will. Big Pond News and other Australian media sites proclaimed that Online fan fiction changes publishing; this and the Express story both mentioned Twilight-to-proficer Abigail Gibbs - remember, folks, you read her name here first. In a review of Jane Eyre Laid Bare (Charlotte Bronte and Eve Sinclair) for The Wall Street Journal, Supriya Nair wrote In the wake of the enormous success of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades series, it has become unnecessary to explain, or apologize for, the buoyant category of literature known as fanfiction. Still, for the sake of clarity, a recap: Fanfiction is writing based on published sources—books, films, TV shows, and often even real events or people who make news—produced by fans, to be read by other fans.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Kathy Flanigan shared that Bon Iver is fodder for erotic fan fiction, and provided wonderful examples from boniverotica, who I wish would come and play in one of my fandoms, pretty please. Emily Haas looked at some of the legal issues surrounding the origins of Fifty Shades of Grey for Lexology. Finally, from daria234: this month’s Writer’s Digest features ‘The 411 On Fan Fiction
’ by Jessica Grieser. | Monday, January 28th, 2013 | 10:52 am |
Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 1/26/13 http://fanthropology.livejournal.com/513523.html Mid-week, I started getting Google alerts about GuestHouse Games, an “erotic fan fiction novel” […] starring the president and first lady Michelle Obama! (Gayle Fee, Boston Herald) It’s the product of U Star Novels, an Australian (or maybe UK?) company that produces “Personalized Novels and Books”, ranging from search-and-replace personalizations of, among other books, Anne of Green Gables and Jane Eyre, to adult romances. “GuestHouse Games” is one such, written as a generic fill-in-the-blank by Taya James; but it seems the owners of U Star got bored, and, well, there you have it. Reason #203 I want to live in Austin in another life: in The Austin Chronicle, Dan Solomon wrote If you have never once contemplated the convoluted continuity of the X-Universe, the Hideout's Fandom: Improvised Fan Fiction in Your Favorite Worlds – running every Saturday night through February, with a different subject each week – is designed to ensure that you're not left alienated.In a review of Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys for The Star (Malaysia), Daphne Lee wrote Stiefvater would probably throw a hissy fit if she read this but it’s like she’s created her characters especially for fangirls to swoon over and fanfiction writers to ship ’til the cows come home.New Yorker’s Tim Wu pointed out that indie film “Escape from Tomorrow” ultimately raises a larger question of what you might call cultural freedom, or the freedom to comment on or reimagine the great cultural icons of our time. It’s the same question raised by fan fiction and remix artists like Jeff Koons.On NewsOK, Matt Patterson shared that Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library's fan fiction contest [is] under way. For Los Angeles Review of Books, Janine Barchas wrote Having recently read [Beth] Pattillo’s frothy entertainment as a break from weightier things, I am most struck by how this book [published in 2009] anticipates some works of serious scholarship that have since followed it into print; Jane Austen Ruined My Life suggests that today’s groundbreaking literary criticism inadvertently imitates artful fan fiction.Writing on e-publishing for The Western Australian, Susan Hewitt noted the Wattpad One Direction launch generated more than 12,000 pieces of fan fiction. Huffington Post shared that an upcoming book, Ted Travelstead's The Petraeus Files, explains the actual reason Kelley and Allen exchanged so many emails: Their shared love of TV fan fiction. (I so, so hope this is true!) Utah author Roseanne Wilkins told Daily Herald’s Caleb Warnock " After reading ‘Breaking Dawn’ by Stephenie Meyer, I was moved to write a fan-fiction novel called ‘Noonday Sun.’”From NPR’s Heda Ulaby, regarding a recent director naming: Look on the bright side, says comedian Andre Meadows. J.J. Abrams could unleash the ultimate fan fiction crossover. Just imagine, "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" mashed up together.WBEZ’s Leah Pickett asked So, what happens when you fall somewhere in between [nerddom and normality]? I'm way too nerdy to resist a marathon of Doctor Who or a midnight premiere of Harry Potter (in full costume, of course!) but I'm also not quite geeky enough to attend a robot convention or learn advanced Klingon. While I enjoy playing Galaga at my neighborhood barcade and reading obscene amounts of Mulder/Scully fan fiction, I've never played a video game (my parents didn't allow them in the house when I was growing up) and I've only read a handful of comic books from cover-to-cover. Does that make me ineligible for geekdom? Is there a nerd hierarchy that I must adhere to in order to claim membership?Salon’s Tim Price asked why should we reward Harry Reid and his crew for shirking their responsibilities while House Republicans have been keeping their noses to the grindstone and dutifully passing Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand fan fiction?Finally, in The Globe and Mail, Sheila Heti wrote so many novels, films and adaptations – including fanfiction, zombie parodies and erotic version – have been birthed from [Pride and Prejudice’s] head, it’s impossible to count them. | Sunday, January 20th, 2013 | 4:12 pm |
Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 1/19/13 http://fanthropology.livejournal.com/513276.html Oakland Tribune’s Angela Hill put forth a pretty decent Fanfic 101, Fan fiction: A world where Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes could meet, and followed up with Top five most popular fan fiction genres (by which she means fandoms). Regarding the final season of Spartacus, Boston Herald’s Mark Perigard wrote The popularity of the pairing of Agron (Daniel Feuerriegel) and Nasir (Pana Hema-Taylor) has surprised everyone associated with the show. Dedicated fans have crafted YouTube tribute videos, fan fiction and art. [Quoting executive producer and writer Steven S. DeKnight,] “We’ve had same-sex relationships before on this show, but with Agron and Nasir, I wanted to show the relationship from the very beginning to the blossoming of feelings to being together. I’m overjoyed they are not only accepted as a couple but that they have a huge fan base. I get inundated with pleas not to kill them.”In New University (UC – Irvine), in ‘The Art of Fangirling,’ Sarah Menendez and Taylor Weik define fan fiction as when fangirls are frustrated with everything that is canon and take it upon themselves to rewrite the stories with different plot lines (be warned that most of them are ridiculous, pornographic and poorly written).For reasons I didn’t bother trying to understand (i.e., I didn’t bother reading past the fanfic mention), Sports Illustrated opined We’re still really hoping this Clancy Pendergast thing pans out for USC, because a name like that following “Monte Kiffin” makes writing Trojans football/The Thorn Birds fan fiction that much easier.TIME’s Lily Rothman wrote that James Erwin has expressed excitement about returning to [his version of a story about Marines in ancient Rome, soon to be a Major Motion Picture] when it finally qualifies as fanfiction. Huffington Post’s Zoë Triska asked The Fault in Our Stars author John Green, “You are pretty involved with your fans (YouTube videos, this event, etc). You give a lot more than the typical author. Why is that?” His response: I don't really think of it as giving, because I also receive a lot: Readers make music and art and fan fiction and t-shirts inspired by my books, which is tremendously fulfilling. One of the most important things art can do is inspire more art.There were two fanfic references in this week’s Ask Polly on The Awl. An article by Nick McCrea for Bangor Daily News about a woman who is the subject of “an in-the-works documentary film exploring what it means to find beauty without vision” begins Michelle Smith hunches over, nose nearly touching the glowing laptop screen in front of her. With the text blown up and her eyes inches from the screen, she can make out letters well enough to catch up on her favorite online fan fiction forum, which is based on a former MTV show, “Daria.”Over on Daily Dot, Aja Romano argued that fandom shouldn’t hide anymore and wrote about When celebrities discover fanficion… about themselves. She’s also been reviewing fanfic, including electrumqueen's I am the hero of this story (Inception), projectcyborg's Habeas Corpus (West Wing/BSG), and trinityofone’s DADT, Damyata, Dayadhvam (SGA). Also on Daily Dot, Mike Fenn wrote about leadership changes at the Organization for Transformative Works. Finally, Entertainment Weekly’s Jeff Jensen, on an American Horror Story plot development (or lack thereof): You’ll always have fan fiction, AHS watchers. |
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