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Love for the Fannish Archive: Fuller’s Hannibal as Fanfiction

August 25, 2015
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Love for the Fannish Archive: Fuller’s <i>Hannibal</i> as Fanfiction

In positioning the series as fan fiction, Hannibal show runner Bryan Fuller and his team claim the identity and ethos of the feminine-gendered fan, a position that allows them to intertextually and ardently acknowledge both the practices and the affect of its primarily female fandom.
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In the Beginning Was the Word

May 14, 2013
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In the Beginning Was the Word

Recent episodes of Doctor Who and Supernatural take up the narrative of storyteller as God, raising questions about our fascination with the auteur.
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Author as God? or, Kripke, We Don’t Need You to Explain Supernatural to Us

May 17, 2010
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Author as God? or, Kripke, We Don’t Need You to Explain <em>Supernatural</em> to Us

I like active viewers/readers, and while I don’t think that authors are dead, I don’t think they should run after their texts telling us what they mean. A good text should show me its myriad meanings, and great texts tend to contain multitudes.
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?

May 3, 2010
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?

Seeing Graham as Sarah Braverman evokes for both Derek and me her role of Lorelai, but whereas I view Sarah as maybe a little snarkier and wittier than she’s written in the show, for Derek the roles crash.
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