Who Makes the Franchise?

Table of Contents


We Want the Wilderness: A Preface

Donald Quist and Rhonda Knight

An Introduction to Fans and Franchises: Essays on the Changing Landscape of Fandom

Donald Quist and Rhonda Knight with John E. Price

Section One: Fans and Canon

The -Pedler-Davis Legacy: Cybermen in the Doctor Who Wilderness

Rhonda Knight

The Wild Canon: Examining the Slash Impact in Roddenberry's Star Trek

Danielle S. Girard

A Hero Divided: The Fractured Narrative Arc of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars Expanded Universe (1977-2014)

Jonathan Hay

Section Two: Franchises and Fans

"What we make of it": Terminator Salvation and the Neglect of Core Franchise Themes

Camilo Peralta

Whose Godzilla? Rethinking the King of Monsters Through the Films

Joe Yang

Where Auteur Fails: Zack Snyder and the -Author-Function

Hannah Taylor

The Scraps of DC: Media Ownership, Film Economics and the Arrowverse

Tim Posada

Reminders of Life's Impermanence: Death, Endings and Closure in Logan and Avengers: Infinity

Mike Hernandez

Section Three: Fan Responses

"Take me out to the black": Firefly, Fanfiction and the (Re)Making of Modern Myths

Jim Casey and Nicola Rene Govocek

You Always Spoof the One You Love: Thirty Years of Professional -Take-Offs on The Muppet Show

Jonathan Hartmann

"We, the fans of Star Wars": Negotiating Resistance in an Age of Consumption

Joseph S. Walker

Fans, Franchises and Cultural Production: What The Hobbit and Disney's Star Wars Tell Us About the Internet and Media Entertainment Culture

Zachary Sheldon

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