The Secular Religion of Fandom (eBook, ePUB) - Otter Bickerdike, Jennifer
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A fascinating exploration of 'media pilgrimage' and what it tells us about our obsessions with celebrity and our desire for meaning and identity in an uncertain world.

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A fascinating exploration of 'media pilgrimage' and what it tells us about our obsessions with celebrity and our desire for meaning and identity in an uncertain world.

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Autorenporträt
Dr Jennifer Otter Bickerdike is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of Music and Brand Marketing at Buckinghamshire New University.

Embodying the unique combination of real-world experience and academic knowledge, she has over 20 years experience of working with taste-makers and cultural provocateurs like Facebook, Interscope Geffen A&M records and L.A.M.B.

Jennifer was previously program leader and Senior Lecturer of Arts and Culture Management at the University of East London, where she was voted by her students as the best lecturer at the school and was shortlisted in the category of Most Innovative Teacher in the UK by the Times Higher Education Council. Her research interests include celebrity, youth culture, popular music, popular culture, dark tourism, and the doomed heroine in British literature.
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The secular religion of fandom permeates and animates our late modern lives. In a media-saturated society, pop-culture and fandom provide the sights and sites of a type of religious devotion, pilgrimage and search for enchantment and meaning that are widely experienced, but little studied and even less understood. This is the religion we live amongst, a religion constantly being remade and relocated, a polytheistic religion of places and people, texts and images re-enchanthing the world through technology and capitalism. Thankfully we have Jennifer Otter-Bickerdike who, in a groundbreaking drawing together of fieldwork and theory, has provided a fascinating, intelligent, lively and accessible guidebook to this widespread phenomenon. If you want to understand the late modern Western search for meaning in a technologically driven world then you need to read this book. Professor Michael Grimshaw