#millennial fandom

“In feels culture, emotions remain intimate but are no longer necessarily private; rather, they build a sense of an intimate collective, one that is bound together precisely by the processes of shared emotional authorship. In this equation, emotion fuels fan transformative creativity, and performances of shared emotion define fan authorship communities.” (Millennial Fandom, 156)

“Indeed, millennial noir series depict multiple young female characters (both across series and within a single series) who fight for and then wield power, often through their use of digital technologies. These young women narrate their power struggles--or perform  their power--through voice-over, bringing the audience along for the ride. As we are drawn into the file fatale’s perspective, we are interpellated into the millennial collective and invited into a space of millennial/generational interiority, one marked simultaneously as public and intimate, individual and plural.” (Millennial Fandom, 93)

Glee viewers are very much aware of and invested in the ideological subtleties, stakes, and potential of the series, and they turn this same attention to their own production as well. (Millennial Fandom, 54)

In the multi-year process of writing Millennial Fandom, I worked out many of my ideas in video/fanvid form. Sometimes the vid came before I drafted a chapter, and sometimes it came after. As I look back, I see that three videos offer in different different form the core ideas from the book’s three sections, Millennial Hope, Millennial Noir, and Millennial Transformation. I’ll post all three vids here. I’d love to hear what you think about the relationships and the differences between writing about these ideas with words and videos.