Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research - Otherness, Intersectionality and Fan Studies

This book explores the diversity of fans and how they form and express their identity within fandom. Readers that would be interested in this book are scholars and students of fandom theory, screenwriting practice, and those interested in the development and expression of identity as a fan.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Screenwriting Practice Methodology and Fan Studies 2. Fanwriting Practices: Meta, Fanfic, and Representation 3. Cosplay: Identity Formation and Performance 4. Conventions: Locating Fandom 5. Collecting: Fan Activity and Identity Formation 5. Otherness and Intersectionality. Conclusion

About the author

Kathryn Beaton has a doctorate in Philosophy, Media, and Communications from RMIT University and a Masters in Screenwriting from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Beaton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032720326
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3272032-6
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies; Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, ART / Film & Video, Humanities, Gender studies, gender groups, Disability: social aspects, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / LGBTQ+