Negotiating meaning in the consumption of the past. (1st October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Fiona; Brown, Mary
• Is Part Of: Journal of fandom studies. Volume 2:Number 2(2014)
• Page Start: 147
• Page End: 161
• Publication Date: 2014-10-01
• Subjects: Fans (Persons) -- Periodicals; Subculture -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Psychological aspects -- Periodicals; 306.1
• DOI: 10.1386/jfs.2.2.147_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2046-6692

Abstract

The Internet and social networking technologies have facilitated communication between groups of retrophiles or fans of the past. The article seeks to examine motivations for retrophilic action and to discuss these ideas within the present late capitalist culture. The article discusses how retrophiles seem to use the past in order to (re)construct their individual and collective identities and it examines two recent media representations that present retrophiles in discourses of consumption and acquisition.