Camille Bacon-Smith
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| Name: | Camille Bacon-Smith | |
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| Occupation: | academic | |
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| Works: | Enterprising Women (1992), Science Fiction Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), other works | |
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Camille Bacon-Smith is an aca-fan who has written about fandom. Her book Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth is often cited in other works. Bacon-Smith, and Henry Jenkins's book Textual Poachers, were both published in 1992 and signaled the beginning of the study of popular fannish culture and media fandom.
Materials related/mentioned/used in this book, fan-created and otherwise, are archived at the Temple University's Enterprising Women Collection.
External Sources
- Henry Jenkins and Camille Bacon-Smith at Gaylaxicon, 1992: Part One, [Part Two, TBA]
- Women Science Fiction Fans, Chapter 5 - Roundtable discussion led by Camille Bacon-Smith
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