Everybody Hurts : Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Starting at the End / Rebecca Williams -- Part One. Exploring Music Fandom -- 1. Remembering R.E.M.: Social Media, Memories, and Endings within Music Fandom / Lucy Bennett -- 2. " I'll Never Break Your Heart" : The Perpetual Fandom of the Backstreet Boys / Simone Driessen -- 3. " My Music Was on Shuffle, One of Their Songs Came On, and I Had to Hit Next . . .": Navigating Grief and Disgust in Lostprophets Fandom / Bethan Jones -- Part Two. Televisual Anniversaries, Endings, and Fan/Producer Relationships -- 4. Breaking Up with Breaking Bad: Relational Dissolution and the Critically Acclaimed AMC Series / Melissa A. Click and Holly Wilson Holladay -- 5. Fan Euthanasia: A Thin Line between Love and Hate / Paul Booth -- 6. Endings in Soap Opera: Fan Anticipation, Speculation, and Reaction to EastEnders' 30th Anniversary Storyline / Stuart Bell and Ruth A. Deller -- 7. "Is This What You Call a Breakup?": The Cancellation of Merlin, Perceived Producer Disloyalty, and "Television-as-Lover" Fandom / Joseph Brennan -- 8. Hannibal's Refrigerator: Bryan Fuller's Response to Fans' (Critical) Rage / Evelyn Deshane -- Part Three. Fan Works, Adaptations, and Endings -- 9. The Repurposed Fantasy: Dōjinshi and the Japanese Media Mix / Anya Benson -- 10. When Production Is Over: Creating Narrative Closure in Fan Edits / Nicolle Lamerichs -- 11. Creating Canon through Kickstarter: Star Trek Continues / Nichola Dobson -- Part Four. Fandom and the Loss of Space and Place -- 12. Replacing Maelstrom: Theme Park Fandom, Place, and the Disney Brand / Rebecca Williams -- 13. "The World's Turned Inside Out, and We Can Never Go Home Anymore": Punchdrunk's Site-Specific Theater and Fan Interaction / Emily Garside.

14. Internet Killed the Video Store: Video Stores, Cultural Memory, Nostalgia, and Fandom / Kathleen Williams -- Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath / Kristina Busse -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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