Trans-cult-ural fandom: Desire, technology and the transformation of fan subjectivities in the Japanese female fandom of Hong Kong stars

This essay examines the ways in which affective desire and new media technologies were mobilized by Japanese female fans of Hong Kong films and stars to produce a fan subjectivity that was at once cult and transcultural. The origins of this fandom, which flourished from around 1985 through the 1990s...

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Main Author: Lori Hitchcock Morimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2013-09-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2013.0494