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Citizen Fan
| News Media Commentary | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Citizen Fan |
| Commentator: | Emmanuelle Debats[1] |
| Date(s): | |
| Venue: | TV, web |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter, Castle, My Little Pony, Teen Wolf |
| External Links: | Documentary on Francetv website |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Citizen Fan is a 2014 French documentary about fan culture, particularly fanfiction, fanzines, vidding, and cosplay. It focuses on different fandoms, including Harry Potter, Castle, My Little Pony and Teen Wolf.
Contents
Citizen Fan has two parts : one thematic approach and one series of interviews of participants, which digs deeper into different fan cultures (such as fanfiction, vidding or cosplay). All videos have English subtitles.
Themes
The webdocumentary has eight main themes :
- What is fanfiction ?
- When the Fandom becomes Mainstream
- What about money ?
- Author and authority
- What's the quality ?
- What Sociologists say about it
- What Law Says about it
- A feminine world ?
Participants
Henry Jenkins, French fans Alixe, BlackNight, Qctx, Natacha Guyot, Elimor, Jeanne of Obscurus Presse, CB Writter, Code 44, Myriam, La Silvana, Lapaumée, Myu, WahWah, Madoka Ayu, Iza 65, Orphée, Domibleue and French academics Arnaud Miralles de la 501ème, Vanessa Damianthe, Sébastien François, Lionel Maurel, Damien Minet are interviewed in this documentary.
Some fans are interviewed in a Personnages section as well, where they explain their fan activities.
Critics
Henry Jenkins said that the documentary "may just be the best documentary about fan culture that [he has] ever seen"[2], in a post about french fan culture.
This post is part of a three part interview with the Emmanuelle Debats, who created the webdoc.
External Links
The documentary on Francetv website
Henry Jenkins, Citizen Fan: An Interview with Filmmaker Emmanuelle Wielezynski-Debats (Part One) , Part 2, Part 3
References
- ^ Citizen Fan, Crédits (Accessed June 2015)
- ^ Henry Jenkins, Citizen Fan: An Interview with Filmmaker Emmanuelle Wielezynski-Debats (Part One)