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Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2527-238X
AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Communication
Year Degree Awarded
2024
Month Degree Awarded
February
First Advisor
Emily West
Subject Categories
Critical and Cultural Studies
Abstract
My dissertation, “Framing Fanart,” broadly theorizes media fanart, a form of transformative work that is enormously popular, transnational and transcultural, and at its heart an engaged response to a piece of media. Through physical and digital archival research, discourse analysis, and qualitative research methods, I consider specific examples of how fanart functions within these different framings. This work is some of the first to consider fanart broadly as both a lens through which to view patterns of cultural production and a discrete artefact which merits serious consideration as artwork in its own right.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/36293905
Recommended Citation
Nielsen, E J., "Framing Fanart" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations. 3074.
https://doi.org/10.7275/36293905
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/3074
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