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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Why Study Fans? | |
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| Fan Texts: From Aesthetic to Legal Judgments | |
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| The Death of the Reader? Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture | |
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| Media Academics as Media Audiences: Aesthetic Judgments in Media and Cultural Studies | |
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| Yoko in Cyberspace with Beatles Fans: Gender and the Re-Creation of Popular Mythology | |
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| Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and the Rights of the Author | |
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| Beyond Pop Culture: Fandom from News to High Culture | |
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| The News: You Gotta Love It | |
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| The Fans of Cultural Theory | |
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| Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians | |
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| Fans of Chekhov: Re-Approaching "High Culture" | |
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| Spaces of Fandom: From Place to Performance | |
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| Place, Elective Belonging, and the Diffused Audience | |
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| On the Set of The Sopranos: "Inside" a Fan's Construction of Nearness | |
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| A Sort of Homecoming: Fan Viewing and Symbolic Pilgrimage | |
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| From Smart Fan to Backyard Wrestler: Performance, Context, and Aesthetic Violence | |
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| Fan Audiences Worldwide: From the Global to the Local | |
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| Global Fandom/Global Fan Studies | |
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| Between Rowdies and Rasikas: Rethinking Fan Activity in Indian Film Culture | |
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| Beyond Kung-Fu and Violence: Locating East Asian Cinema Fandom | |
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| Han Suk-kyu and the Gendered Cultural Economy of Stardom and Fandom | |
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| Shifting Contexts, Changing Fan Cultures: From Concert Halls to Console Games | |
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| Loving Music: Listeners, Entertainments, and the Origins of Music Fandom in Nineteenth-Century America | |
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| Girls Allowed? The Marginalization of Female Sports Fans | |
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| Customer Relationship Management: Automating Fandom in Music Communities | |
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| Playing the Game: Performance in Digital Game Audiences | |
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| Fans and Anti-Fans: From Love to Hate | |
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| Fan-tagonism: Factions, Institutions, and Constitutive Hegemonies of Fandom | |
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| Untidy: Fan Response to the Soiling of Martha Stewart's Spotless Image | |
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| The Anti-Fan within the Fan: Awe and Envy in Sport Fandom | |
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| A Vacancy at the Paris Hilton | |
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| The Other Side of Fandom: Anti-Fans, Non-Fans, and the Hurts of History | |
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| Afterword: The Future of Fandom | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Index | |