Fandom & Harry Potter
Summarizing what
Hellekson Karen says: Fandom is one set of fans who share a hobby, person or
phenomenon in particular.
The Harry Potter
fandom in this case is the most prominent in the last, is a large international
and informal community attracted to the series of books written by J. K.
Rowling, Harry Potter. The fandom diversifies and expands the use of many
media, including websites, fan fiction, podcasts, fan art, songvids, and
different musical genre, known as Wizard Rock. However, fans not only interact
through Internet forums, also meet fans at conventions, book clubs, sightseeing
tours to important places from the books and film production, and the famous
parties held at midnight of publication of each book and flim.
The Pottermania
is an informal term that was first used around 1999 to describe the madness of
the fans who had taken over the series of Harry Potter books. The midnight
parties were popularized by fans from the publication of fourth book in the
series. Several Anglophone bookstores stayed open all night during the eve of
the launch. In 2005, Entertainment Weekly outlined the midnight release of
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as one of the "highlights" in the
last 25 years.
The madness
about series was the subject of parody on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger,
The Devil Wears Prada and the 2006 adaptation to the big screen. In the novel,
Miranda Priestly is the director of a fashion magazine that is pretty unkind to
their employees and particularly their assistants. One of them is Andrea Sachs,
which orders him to get two copies of the next installment of the series for
her twin daughters as soon as they are released (in the film, before they are
published).
Through video
games, Potter left the limits of imagination existing, new viewers and gamers
were immersed in the fictional world, the sense of realism Increased, however,
it is through of the Internet that the narrative grew to the shared experience
of multiple contributors. Thus, the story of Harry Potter expanded from the
world of imagination to the physical sphere.
Sources:
- Hellekson Karen, ‘Fan Fiction & Fan Communities (abstracts)’,
2006.
For the peer-review of this post, in this case I would like say I´ve already heard about Pottermania but never from this perspective.
ResponderEliminarAlthough you´ve focused in the Potter topic, you could focus in some more like star war or manga´s comic. In the post, you didn´t talk about the clothes they wear, and how to act they have, these were also interesting.
I think the functioning is almost the same that in viral videos that you posted before, but reaching a level more, almost as a lifestyle. I mean first how a movement can be started by one person, however it takes the first few followers to make it a movement where others follow, mouth to mouth!
For the peer-review of this post, in this case I would like say I´ve already heard about Pottermania but never from this perspective.
ResponderEliminarAlthough you´ve focused in the Potter topic, you could focus in some more like star war or manga´s comic. In the post, you didn´t talk about the clothes they wear, and how to act they have, these were also interesting.
I think the functioning is almost the same that in viral videos that you posted before, but reaching a level more, almost as a lifestyle. I mean first how a movement can be started by one person, however it takes the first few followers to make it a movement where others follow, mouth to mouth!