Book Review: The Truths of Monsters
By Vivian Asimos Limpár, Ildikó (2021) The truths of monsters: coming of age with fantastic media. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &…
Fantasy
Magical Maladies and Injuries: Cultural Appropriation in J. K. Rowling’s Ilvermorny
Although the final book in the Harry Potter saga, The Deathly Hallows, was published almost a decade ago, J. K….
Game of Spoilers: A Spoiler-Free Investigation into the Role of Experience in Fandom
Fans maintain a careful balance between individually-experienced and community-accumulated information that is important for both the fan’s independent enjoyment and their fandom membership. Spoilers disrupt this balance, and by investigating spoilers we can understand it better.
Storytelling and Worldbuilding in The Force Awakens
As Star Wars moves forward, it is drawing larger audiences into what the now-apocryphal Expanded Universe (EU) stories have been doing with the world for a long time: expanding the horizons, filling in gaps, and doing the other work necessary for worldbuilding. And here’s the thing: we’ve spent a lot of time studying stories, and not that much time studying worlds.
2015 in Review: Geek Girls and Gender
By Emma Louise Backe For several years, TGA founder Marie-Pierre has been conducting research on the fraudulent phenomenon of “fake…
The Geek Anthropologist 