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Fandom. Cosplayer dressed as Katniss Everdeen during the Montreal Comiccon, July 2015. A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest. Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the objects of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and ...
Fan studies is an academic discipline that analyses fans, fandoms, fan cultures and fan activities, including fanworks. It is an interdisciplinary field located at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences , which emerged in the early 1990s as a separate discipline, and draws particularly on audience studies and cultural studies .
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
Juggalo. A juggalo (feminine juggalette, or juggala in Spanish) [ 1][better source needed] is a fan of the hip hop group Insane Clown Posse or any other hip hop group signed to Psychopathic Records. Juggalos have developed their own idioms, slang, and characteristics. [ 2]
Otaku ( Japanese: おたく, オタク, or ヲタク) is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers. Its contemporary use originated with a 1983 essay by Akio Nakamori in Manga Burikko . Otaku subculture is a central theme of various anime, manga, documentaries, and ...
Fan service (ファンサービス, fan sābisu), fanservice or service cut (サービスカット, sābisu katto) [1] [2] is material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series that is intentionally added to please the audience, [3] often sexual in nature, such as nudity. [4] [5] The term originated in Japanese [6] [7] in the anime and ...
British punk and post-punk fanzines from the 1970s. A fanzine ( blend of fan and magazine or - zine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest. The term was coined in an October 1940 ...
Fansite. A family tree of fictional characters, from a Catan fansite. A fansite, fan site, fan blog or fan page is a website created and maintained by a fan or devotee about a celebrity, thing, or particular cultural phenomenon . Fansites may offer specialized information on the subject (e.g., episode listings, biographies, storyline plots ...