'It's all my interpretation': reading Spike through the subcultural celebrity of James Marsters

Hills, Matt; Williams, Rebecca

[journal article]

dc.contributor.author	Hills, Matt	de
dc.contributor.author	Williams, Rebecca	de
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-01T05:22:00Z	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-29T22:30:24Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-29T22:30:24Z
dc.date.issued	2005	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22658
dc.description.abstract	This article considers how fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel interpret the character of Spike through meanings attached to actor James Marsters as a 'subcultural celebrity'. Work on TV’s celebrity actors has stressed how character and actor can become semiotically blurred. Rather than approaching this blurring of textual and extra-textual connotations as an essential property of television celebrity, we analyse how Marsters displays situated agency by discursively constructing 'himself' in publicity materials as 'like Spike'. We then consider Marsters as a reader of Buffy. As a subcultural celebrity, we argue that Marsters is positioned between media producers and media fans, and therefore is able to offer up privileged interpretations of 'his' character, Spike, while simultaneously observing the symbolic power of producers’ preferred readings. Marsters supports certain fan readings of Spike, acting as a textual poacher who nevertheless is 'inside' the texts of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject.ddc	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.other	agency; Buffy; celebrity; fandom; subculture; television actors; textual poachers
dc.title	'It's all my interpretation': reading Spike through the subcultural celebrity of James Marsters	en
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	European Journal of Cultural Studies	de
dc.source.volume	8	de
dc.publisher.country	GBR
dc.source.issue	3	de
dc.subject.classoz	Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Broadcasting, Telecommunication	en
dc.subject.classoz	Wirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung	de
dc.subject.classoz	Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature	en
dc.subject.classoz	Impact Research, Recipient Research	en
dc.subject.classoz	Rundfunk, Telekommunikation	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-226587	de
dc.date.modified	2011-05-20T13:07:00Z	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;ADIS	de
ssoar.contributor.institution	http://www.peerproject.eu/	de
internal.status	3	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.rights.copyright	f	de
dc.source.pageinfo	345-365
internal.identifier.classoz	1080407
internal.identifier.classoz	1080401
internal.identifier.classoz	10216
internal.identifier.journal	114	de
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	070
internal.identifier.ddc	301
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405054866	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	de
internal.identifier.licence	7
internal.identifier.pubstatus	2
internal.identifier.review	1
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer	CERTAIN
internal.check.languageharmonizer	CERTAIN_RETAINED

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