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Queer Encounters between Iron Man and Chinese Boys' Love Fandom
- Author(s):
- John Wei (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- LLC East Asian, MS Visual Culture, TC Popular Culture, TC Sexuality Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- Chinese literature, Comparative literature, Culture--Study and teaching, Digital humanities
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- film, superhero, fandom, yaoi, boys' love, Cultural studies, Film studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GP4W
- Abstract:
- Superhero fan fiction is increasingly popular in the Chinese boys' love (BL) community. An exploration of the fan fic Gangtiexia: Zhongdu Yilai (Iron Man: Overly attached) investigates how the Hollywood cultural icon Iron Man/Tony Stark is reimagined in Chinese BL culture and to what degree this kind of rendition both echoes and extends as well as challenges and deviates from our current insights into BL fandoms. Through the lenses of queerness and technological human transformation, I explore the fresh contribution of Iron Man fan fiction to both local BL cultures and global superhero fandoms.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0561
- Publisher:
- Organization for Transformative Works
- Pub. Date:
- 2014
- Journal:
- Transformative Works and Cultures
- Volume:
- 17
- ISSN:
- 1941-2258
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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