Theoretical Perspectives on Fan Scholarship in the Franchise Era

Sophie Charlotte van de Goor

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Routledge
01 December 2025

Humanities; Popular culture; Media studies

Series: Transmedia

This book is a practical and theoretical guide for anyone interested in researching popular media, popular culture, audiences, and fans. Unlike most books, Theoretical Perspectives does not talk about media texts or fan communities. Instead, it critically explores the workings of fan scholarship: research on popular media and fan culture done by scholars who are often fans themselves, showing and challenging how we have constructed certain ideas about what fans and fandom are, and how to study them/as a fan. Analysing scholarship on two transmedia franchises (The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the BBC's Sherlock) with the help of extensive international participant discussion, Theoretical Perspectives explores and unravels established, popular theoretical frameworks and value systems on taste and legitimacy, subversion, filtering and safe spaces, neoliberal capitalist realism, and fannish dispositions to offer new approaches for anyone who wants to create a better understanding of fans, fandom, and themselves.

By: Sophie Charlotte van de Goor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781041189480
ISBN 10: 1041189486
Series: Transmedia
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sophie Charlotte is an independent researcher with a PhD in Media, Culture and Communication from the Huddersfield Research Centre for Participatory Culture (and some technical diplomas). She works in IT and Control, speaking frequently on society and technology. She is single, gym fit, loves cats, philosophy, home DIY, and Warhammer40k.