Fandom

Starter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amYzBQMT4VI

Context:

Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 thriller film starring Samuel L. Jackson in which hundreds of poisonous snakes are released on a passenger jet flying between Hawaii and Los Angeles. Prior to its release in theaters, its B-movie style title combined with Jackson’s casting resulted in much hype for the film online, resulting in a number of parody videos and fan art.


http://leighmediaa2filmsectionb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/film-fans-spectatorship.html

Create Meaning example 1



Create Meaning example 2

fan involvement, producers keep happy

Task: Apply concepts of specatorship to fandom and map out using your case study

- pleasures
- factors: why, who, what, how, with who, via what medium
- responses - emotional, visceral, intellectual,
- active and passive

use the brief links below to help you produce a mind map as per example (only better with more images from your case study)

http://leighmediaa2filmsectionb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/intriductory-reading-fandom.html

http://leighmediaa2filmsectionb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/pleasures-of-film-watching-relationship.html

http://leighmediaa2filmsectionb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/active-spectatorship-relationship.html

Analyse Fandom's links to the Auteur Theory: how has it developed this?

http://leighmediaa2filmsectionb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/film-art-and-fandom.html

Analyse - give reasons for the significance of fandom in discussing contemporary spectatorship.
Write your analysis using your case study, write 1 paragraph for each of the following points 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 from this list:

Justify the significance of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and technology to contemporary film spectatorship, refering to past and future