This is the slideshow from my presentation at the SGMS/Mechademia conference. It was held at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Sept. 27-29, 2013. You can read the whole paper here: http://sanet.dreamwidth.org/25146.html .
Quote or use as you like, but please credit Sandra Annett.
3. “academia is bounded by its own
imagined subjectivity,” in which “the ‘good
subject’ of the ‘duly informed’ academic is a
resolutely rational subject devoted to
argumentation and persuasion” (Hills, 3)
Now she’s quoting a book.
Like a teacher or something!
4. Aca-Fan Service
-a specialized form of fan service that
references not texts, but modes of
interpretation.
-Three key elements:
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Intertextuality and allusion
Fan service
The aca-fan
Shh, she’s finally starting!
I’m outta here!
5. Allusion and Intertextuality
• intertextuality describes both shows that
make references to other texts and an
interpretive practice where audiences
actively make meaning by making
associations.
• a process of encoding and decoding
information
6. Three Intertextual Strategies
1) Parodic allusion
2)Creative appropriation
3) Self-reflexive reference
• Overall, intertextuality “allow[s] viewers
to exercise specialized knowledge and to
mark their membership in particular
cultures” (Ott & Walter, 440).
9. Fan Service
• “the random and gratuitous display of a
series of anticipated gestures common in
Manga and Anime. These gestures include
such things as panty shots, leg spreads, and
glimpses of breasts” (Russell, 107)
• Fan service gives the viewer a “glimpse” of a
“free, and uncontested, visual space” (108)
10. “While simply living in a particular
physical place may no longer furnish the
sense of community and self that it once
did, the media provide resources for
building coherent, if mutable, identities”
(Ott and Walter, 440)
11. The Aca-Fan
• Intertextual references and intellectuallyjustified fan service risk becoming proxies,
stand-ins that restructure our unspoken
motivations for studying anime.
• Solutions: -Avoid moral dualisms
-Draw on situated knowledges
Don’t forget BwOs!
What is it with you and BwOs?
12. The Aca-Fan
• Is there any part of your fan experience
that you censor?
• Do you use theory to express (or mask)
emotional investments in anime?
• Do you manage to speak in different voices
at once?
• Contact me at: sannett@wlu.ca
Bye bye!
Aw, already?!
13. References
Haraway, Donna. “"Situated Knowledges: The Science
Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial
Perspective.” Feminist Studies 14 (1988): 575–599
Hills, Matt. Fan Cultures. London: Routledge, 2002.
Ott, Brian and Cameron Walter. “Intertextuality: Interpretive
practice and textual strategy.” Critical Studies in Media
Communication 17.4 (2000): 429-446.
Russell, Keith. “The Glimpse and Fan Service: New Media, New
Aesthetics.” The International Journal of the Humanities
6.5 (2008): 105-110.
Gotta have the references.
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