The Clothes Make the Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom when Buffy the Vampire Slayer Goes to eBay

Josh Stenger

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The public's reception of eBay's auction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer wardrobe items marked an instructive collision of online fandom, television production/consumption and e-commerce. As opportunities for critique and fantasy production, the clothes crystallized tensions within the series and among fans: between ownership and authorship; a viable feminist politics and the sexualization of cast and characters; the perceived egalitarianism of online communities and eBay's explicit competitiveness.

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1992Textual poachers : television fans & participatory culture 1998Undressing cinema: clothing and identity in the movies 2002Fighting the forces : what's at stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1996Movies and mass culture

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