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This is the story of two reasonably intelligent women (Lynn is a psychologist, with a PhD in clinical psychology, gainfully employed as a therapist, professor, and researcher; Kathy is a writing professor with a PhD in Eighteenth Century literature) who fell hard for a show called Supernatural.
We became so fascinated by what it means to be a fan that we decided to combine our skills to write a book on fandom from the fans' perspective. As academics do, we first hit the libraries and internet, accumulating stacks of articles and hundreds of pages of research. We typed and revised and theorized, quoted and footnoted, and ended up with an academic text crammed full of the current scholarship on fandom.
This is that book.
However, somewhere along the line, the research took a back seat to the road trip as we traveled across the US and Canada interviewing the show’s fans, as well as the actors and directors, writers, journalists, bloggers, convention organizers, significant others and insignificant hangers-on. The book split in two. Fangasm! is the story of that year-long roadtrip -- the surprises we never saw coming, the secrets uncovered, the behind-the-scenes insights, the heartwarming and heartbreaking fan confessions. It’s also the story of our shared obsession and the friendship that sustains us through 4 am line-ups, overtaxed credit cards, canceled flights and airport camp-outs, and of course the occasional accusations of insanity. Go here for more on Fangasm! Stay here to find out more about Stalking Fandom.
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