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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 April 2016
... that camp is an inadequate framework with which to look at Puig's movie fandom precisely because camp usually brackets the very affection for film that is inherent in fandom. It argues instead for understanding Puig as a queer film fan. During almost daily childhood trips to the movies, he was at once...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 189–210.
Published: 01 March 2003
... releases. Most of it does not get commercially released in the United States. Because American animation tends to be reserved for children's shows, many genres of anime lack an obvious market niche, limiting the kinds of material that get translated. Fans have gotten around some of these problems...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 383–387.
Published: 01 June 2002
...," the best-regarded episode of the original Trek series, but also of deep suspicion and even hostility due to his very vocal renunciation of the mangled version of his original script that was eventually filmed and his general disdain for the show's producers and rabid fans. Trek fandom (at least...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 339–343.
Published: 01 September 2001
... is known already to serious devotees of the 60s folk and rock scene and serious fans of Dylan and Baez. The question of why we need this book is answered with the unstated suggestion of a plot, with Richard Farina as the star. Indeed, a tweak here and a tuck there, and Hajdu could have given...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 349–353.
Published: 01 September 2001
... devotees of the 60s folk and rock scene and serious fans of Dylan and Baez. The question of why we need this book is answered with the unstated suggestion of a plot, with Richard Farina as the star. Indeed, a tweak here and a tuck there, and Hajdu could have given it the subtitle, Richard Farina's...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 354–361.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of the 60s folk and rock scene and serious fans of Dylan and Baez. The question of why we need this book is answered with the unstated suggestion of a plot, with Richard Farina as the star. Indeed, a tweak here and a tuck there, and Hajdu could have given it the subtitle, Richard Farina's Life...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 344–348.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of research, probably much of what this book has to tell is known already to serious devotees of the 60s folk and rock scene and serious fans of Dylan and Baez. The question of why we need this book is answered with the unstated suggestion of a plot, with Richard Farina as the star. Indeed, a tweak...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 265–278.
Published: 01 September 2001
... it is also second nature to almost anyone who habitually consumes it. Dance music aficionados feel the difference between trip-hop and ambient breakbeat; heavy-metal fans will plead with DJs for old Saxon records, while remaining stubbornly seated if Hanoi Rocks is played. The differentiation...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 169–178.
Published: 01 September 2001
... such as Lawrence Grossberg, as well as legions of now mid- dle-aged fans who feel that rock's authentic roots have been betrayed by the cur- rent crop of Gen X bands and performers. The notion of an idyllic rock past from which we've somehow fallen—or, more to the point, an Edenic garden from which we've...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 61–78.
Published: 01 September 2009
... ("Close Encounters What makes these people act this way? What the fuck are they thinking? One clue may be found in "As Others See Us" (Ansible), science fiction fan Dave Langford's long-running collection of dismissive quotes from outside the field, many by "serious" novelists and movie...
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Genre (2004) 37 (1): 65–83.
Published: 01 March 2004
...• ers, so we might here remember only that by the early fifties, fans, critics and musicians had been battling for a full decade over what consti• tuted real jazz. And yet, before the forties...
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Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 179–204.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the group was so obviously manufactured: "serious rock fans hated them" (Ward 321).4 In a period when many of its fans believed rock music to be a harbinger of social revolution, The Monkees represented one version of rock and roll's domestication. For many Americans, rock music from Elvis...
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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in it for the porn star? Conversation? Ideas? Deconstruction?” Duncan’s sarcasm sets a rather caustic tone, and in no time the review takes shots at horror fans themselves. Colson Whitehead is a literary novelist, but his latest book, “Zone One,” [sic] features zombies, which means horror...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 341–343.
Published: 01 June 2004
... as well. Perhaps this claim is his preemptive defense against the inevitable attacks and nitpicking from jazz fans (have I mentioned that he has Bix Beiderbecke hailing from Davenport, Ohio Truth be told, Neate's novel offers little that will interest readers who are also serious fans...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 344–346.
Published: 01 June 2004
... as well. Perhaps this claim is his preemptive defense against the inevitable attacks and nitpicking from jazz fans (have I mentioned that he has Bix Beiderbecke hailing from Davenport, Ohio Truth be told, Neate's novel offers little that will interest readers who are also serious fans...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 350–352.
Published: 01 June 2004
... this claim is his preemptive defense against the inevitable attacks and nitpicking from jazz fans (have I mentioned that he has Bix Beiderbecke hailing from Davenport, Ohio Truth be told, Neate's novel offers little that will interest readers who are also serious fans of the music...
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Genre (2004) 37 (2): 347–349.
Published: 01 June 2004
... as well. Perhaps this claim is his preemptive defense against the inevitable attacks and nitpicking from jazz fans (have I mentioned that he has Bix Beiderbecke hailing from Davenport, Ohio Truth be told, Neate's novel offers little that will interest readers who are also serious fans...
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Genre (2003) 36 (1-2): 163–187.
Published: 01 March 2003
...- 170 GENRE ingly polite both as host and as guest. Inhabiting the house with green trim is "An old woman in gray," who is fanning herself with a palm leaf fan. She welcomes us to her patio, and offers us a cooling drink. "My son...
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Genre (2000) 33 (2): 151–169.
Published: 01 June 2000
... and Ariosto), which was held responsible for the novel's persistent immaturity, its investment in fan- tasy and escapism. Criticism of the novel, as J. M. S. Tompkins has argued, was a commonplace of late eighteenth-century letters, which held that the robust lin- eage of moral realism achieved...
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Genre (2016) 49 (3): 255–272.
Published: 01 December 2016
... not react well to The Dark Tide. Upon the book’s publication, Clarke promptly wrote an outraged letter to Brittain describing the novel as tasteless and without literary merit (see Berry and Bostridge 1995, 540). The scandal reached the national press, with the Daily Express (1923) fanning the flames...