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What elements do you believe motivate the reaction of fan culture and how do they relate to recent remakes, reboots, and remixes? How might these components be used to incorporate generational studies of fandom/popular culture with memorable messages?

The Amazing[ly Unchanging] Spider-Man: Fans, Grievance, and Grief

By Kathryn M. Frank

Guilty Pleasures/Innocent Pleasures: Porous Texts and Utopian Entertainment

By Tim Palmer

Generations, and Reboots, and Fans, Oh My!: A Pedagogical Approach to Questions of Fandom, Fan Labor and Participatory Culture

By Mary Karcher

Cultural Reuse as Pertaining to the Generation Gap

By Dylan Varda

A Medievalist and a Writing Studies Scholar Walk into a Bar in Westworld

By Kevin Moberly

Rise of the Mandalorians: A Star Wars Costuming Fandom Reacts to Intersectional New Canon

By Lauren Woolbright

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in Print and Film: Technology, Imagination, and the Networked Catastrophe

By Mike Piero
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Is it a remake or is it a sequel? Remakes and forensic fandom practices

By Mercè Oliva

Cinematic Remaking and Media-Generational Belonging

By Kathleen Loock
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Star Trek: Rebooted or Re-imagined?

By Lincoln Geraghty
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Reboots as Reactionary

By Noah Tsika
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Golden Ages: the Agency of Nostalgic Fandom

By Aubrey Luxx Mishou
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Fandom Beyond: Reconsidering Genre and Fan History

By Cait Coker
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“People Might Talk”: Queerbaiting and Fan Culture in the BBC’s Sherlock

By Anna Kozak
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Everything Old Is New Again: Notes on Retro and Fan Culture

By Claus Tieber

Cultural Identity in Mass Media Remixes

By Ashley Hamouda
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The BeyHive

By Shameika Harris

Fannish self-perpetuation versus producer self-interest

By Karen Hellekson
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Girl-power revisited in the remake of True Grit

By Glenn Jellenik