학술논문

Fandom's paratextual memory: remembering, reconstructing, and repatriating "lost" Doctor Who.
Document Type
Article
Source
Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2017, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p158-167. 10p.
Subject
*Paratext
*Television programs
*Psychology
Collective memory
Psychology of television viewers
Cultural property
Commodification
Language
ISSN
1529-5036
Abstract
In this article, we aim to bring fan studies and memory studies into greater dialogue through the concept of "paratextual memory". For media fans, paratextual memory facilitates a sense of 'having been there" at key moments of T.V. broadcasting, sustaining fan authenticity and status. We focus on B.B.C. T.V.'s science fiction series Doctor Who (1963-) as a case study due to the fact that the program's "missing episodes" (wiped by the B.B.C.) have been reconstructed by fans through "remixes" of off-air sound recordings and "tele-snap" visual records. Unusually, then, fans' paratextual memory and related forms of productivity have taken the place of archived television. We go on to address how fan- archivists and entrepreneurs have sought to recover and repatriate "lost" Doctor Who. Processes of fannish paratextual memory typically draw on heritage discourses to valorize "classic" Doctor Who, and fans' paratextual memory has thus fed into the B.B.C.'s recommodification of "archive" T.V. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]