From Audience to Agency…
September 19, 2007
This week we’ve been thinking about audiences, reception and agency. In Sue Turnbull’s article, she talks about fans and fan production. To spur your thinking on this front, take a look at this 10 minutes fan-produced Star Wars and COPS fusion parody:
Troops, incidentally, is widely regarded as one of the first great fan films. You read more about it in Wired and in the Wikipedia. Think about the sort of Star Wars audience that created this film – how active are they, and how do they see their agency in relation to the Star Wars franchise?
