Resistance Re-Examined: Gender, Fan Practices, and Science Fiction Television

The Boy Who Would Be Queen: Hints and Closets on Children's Television

“…A number of scholars have investigated slash, fictional depictions of homoerotic romances between media characters, usually male, who are not officially identified as gay (Falzone, 2005;Scodari, 2003). The scholars usually presume that the writers are women (e.g., heterosexual women), envisioning a fantasy of two men together without female competition; however, the profiles on fanfiction.net reveal that one third or more are male, probably gay male adolescents or young adults, envisioning a homoerotic fantasy without heterosexual intrusion.…”

Fanfiction as imaginary play: What fan-written stories can tell us about the cognitive science of fiction

“…Fanfiction has frequently been characterized as a method by which female viewers co-opt media properties originally targeted at male audiences (see Scodari, 2003). Just as the genre of romance novels has been classified as reimagining masculinity to align with female ideals (e.g.…”

“…While there has been a great deal of discussion about the prominence of ''slash'' fanfiction, in which two canonically straight characters are paired together in a same-sex relationship (e.g. Bacon -Smith, 1992;Jones, 2002;Scodari, 2003;Tosenberger, 2008) and case studies have suggested that fanfiction communities sometimes cut across age (Thomas, 2006) and race and class (Black, 2009), there is a need for broader research that investigates the cultural demographics of fanfiction writers. Similarly, while fanfiction is not now-nor has it historically been-a uniquely Western phenomenon (Leavitt and Horbinski, 2011), there is a need for research that explores the way that fanfiction stories vary by culture, particularly given that prior research has shown that readers experience both genre conventions (e.g.…”

“…Chandler-Olcott and Mahar, 2003;Lee, 2011), qualitatively analyzing message board posts on the topic (e.g. Scodari, 2003;Stein and Busse, 2009), and literary analyses of specific fanfiction stories (e.g. Tosenberger, 2008).…”

Not ‘from my hot little ovaries': how slash manips pierce reductive assumptions

“…Hansen's (2010) discussion of 'darkfic' represents a recent turn in criticism. Communications professor Scodari (2003) also acknowledges slash's thematic diversity, challenging the belief that slash fiction necessarily resists patriarchy by arguing the ways in which the practice often reproduces hegemony. She also examines the fan debate around misogyny in slash, acknowledged by Green et al (1998, 20 -22) and Bacon-Smith (1992, 238 -241), both of whom, in Scodari's words, 'declined to elaborate on the implications of the practice's misogynistic shadings' (116).…”