Playing Harry Potter : essays and interviews on fandom and performance /
"Through classroom activities, wizard rock concerts and organizations like the Harry Potter Alliance, Harry Potter fans are using creativity to positively impact the world. This collection of essays and interviews examines how playful fandom not only re-imagines the canon but also challenges co...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- A Potterhead's progress: a quest for authenticity at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter / Rachel Marie Gilbert
- (Re)claiming Harry Potter fan pilgrimage sites / Katherine Larsen
- Snape written, filmed and slashed: Harry Potter and the autopoietic feebback loop / Vera Cuntz-Leng
- The power of imagination and the fan creation of Muggle quidditch: an interview with quidditch player Emily Anne Gibson / Suzanne Delle
- Discovering your inner wizard: the wide world of Harry Potter role-playing games / Sarah Lynne Bowman
- Accio burlesque! performing Potter fandom through "nerdlesque" / Stevi Costa
- Talismans as performative devices of resistance for Harry Potter fans / Sandy Peterson
- Do clothes make the man? an interview with cosplayer Droxy Yaxley / Lisa S. Brenner
- Teaching Harry Potter: pedagogy as play, performance and textual poaching / Edmond Y. Chang
- Embracing the magic: Muggle quidditch and the transformation of gender equality from fantasy to reality / Jennifer E. Popple
- We are book eight: secrets to the success of the Harry Potter Alliance / Heather Elise Hamilton and John Michael Sefel
- Developing community through wizard rock: an interview with wizard rocker Lena Gabrielle / Rob Yoho.