Fan Podcasts - Rewatch, Recap, Review

Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, this book explores three fan podcast genres in which commentary manifests as a structuring form: rewatch and reread podcasts, recap podcasts, and review podcasts.
The author conducts a formalist genre analysis of these podcasts, close reading nine case studies to describe how the three genres function and how different fan labour manifests in podcasting. Each case study teases out the themes, style, and formal constellations of the three podcast genres, shows how different fans activate the affordances of podcasting and commentary, and reveals the distinct generic functions of the three podcast genres.
This book will be of significant interest to scholars and students in podcast studies, fan studies, cultural studies and literary studies who are interested in fan podcasts, podcast genre analysis, and ways of close reading podcasts as texts.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. The Affordances of the Commentary Form
3. Rewatch and Reread Podcasts: The Return to the Text
4. Recap Podcasts: The Co-construction of the Text
5. Review Podcasts: The Evaluation of the Text
6. Conclusion: Paying Attention to Form

About the author

Anne Korfmacher holds a PhD in English Philology from the University of Cologne, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Korfmacher
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 26.12.2025
• EAN: 9781032721972
• ISBN: 978-1-032-72197-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; History, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, The arts, Humanities, Communication Studies, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Audio processing