123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): At the Show: Changes in Twentieth-Century Fan Communities, Audiences, Gendered Spectatorship, and Media in a Global Context

At the Show: Changes in Twentieth-Century Fan Communities, Audiences, Gendered Spectatorship, and Media in a Global Context

AHA Session 97

Saturday, January 3, 2009: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

New York Ballroom East (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Dolores L. Augustine, St. John's University

Topics:

Alternate Realities, Alternate Identities: Class and Gender at Play in Early Twentieth-Century Fan Communities
Nancy R. Reagin, Pace University

Movie Premiere as Patriotic Ritual: Identity, Community, Place, and Narrative in Mid-Century Mexico City
Anne Rubenstein, York University

Broadcast Communities: Television and the Family Audience in 1950s West Germany
Joe B. Perry, Georgia State University

A Social History of the Early Rock and Roll Scene in Hamburg, West Germany
Julia Sneeringer, Queens College and City University of New York, Graduate Center

Gender, Sexuality, and the Boundaries Between Fandom and Activism in Los Angeles Freak Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1966–67
Mark Abraham, York University

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