Where are the Lesbian Rom-Coms? Building Reparative Narratives Through Fan Creativity

JANSOVÁ, Iveta. Where are the Lesbian Rom-Coms? Building Reparative Narratives Through Fan Creativity. Online. In Silvia Schultermandl, Jana Aresin, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Dijana Simic. Affective Worldmaking : Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality. 1st. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022, p. 165-174. Gender Studies. ISBN 978-3-8376-6141-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783839461419-014.

Basic information

• Original name: Where are the Lesbian Rom-Coms? Building Reparative Narratives Through Fan Creativity
• Authors: JANSOVÁ, Iveta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: 1st. Bielefeld, Affective Worldmaking : Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality, p. 165-174, 10 pp. Gender Studies, 2022.
• Publisher: transcript Verlag

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 50800 5.8 Media and communications
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: electronic version available online
• WWW: Link to the open access full-text (book).
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/22:00125527
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6141-5
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783839461419-014
• Keywords in English: fan studies; fan creativity; transformative fans; lesbian popular media content; femslash
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The chapter is focused on trasformative fans and their creativity in the context of mainstream media production representing, or more precisely not representing, marginalized sexualities. The chapter shows what can fans do about bad media representation in their own creative work, and how to rewrite the stories from mainstream media to better fit their experiences and needs.