Fan Studies Quotes

“The 'knowing field'... denotes a place that is both inside each of us, and something notionally shared by everyone else in the fan base.”
― Mark Duffett, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture

“What do Fans produce? Fans produce meanings and interpretations; fans produce art-works; fans produce communities; fans produce alternative Identities. In each case, fans are drawing on materials from the dominant media and employing them in ways that serve their own interests and facilitate their own pleasures.”
― Henry Jenkins

“You can think about Robin Hood as a classic poacher, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. And, essentially, what I see taking place in fandom is that process, where we steal the cultural resources that belong to the networks and we remake them, to speak to what we as fans want them to be, be they concerns as women, or racial concerns, sexual politics questions or whatever. That‘s what I think happens most of the time, when people are engaged in fan writing, in one way or another.”
― Henry Jenkins