Contents
Introduction: Multicultural and Distant Australia / Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael
Part One. Australian Fandom and Distance
1. Fanac in Isolation: Australian Science Fiction Fandom to Easter 1966 / Leigh Edmonds
2. Bridging Distance: Hemsworth and Hiddleston Bring NYC to QLD / Celia Lam and Jackie Raphael
Part Two. Transnational Australian Fandom
3. K-pop Fandom in Australia / Sarah Keith
4. Part of the Party: Eurovision Fans in Australia / Jessica Carniel
5. Soap Opera Fandom in Australia / Ahmet Atay
6 "Everybody Needs Good Neighbours": Transcultural Capital, Fan Pilgrimage, and the Official Neighbours Tour / Lincoln Geraghty
Part Three. Australian Media and Fandom
7. The Nina Effect: Offspring and the Commodification of Fan Affect / Renee Middlemost
8. Underbelly: Squizzy: The Producer/Fan Online Interface in Australian Television-Case Study / Ian Dixon
Part Four. Online and Off-line Fandom
9. "We're Not Just Listening to the Radio": Australian Radio Listeners as Fans / Kate Ames and Jacqui Ewart
10. Postdigital Cultures of Downloading and Streaming in Australia: Fandom and Game of Thrones / Toija Cinque
11. Australian and American Cosplayers: Two Scenes Separated by a Common Practice / Sharon Elkind
12. A Brief History of Cosplay in Australian Popular Culture Conventions / Emerald L. King
Contributors
Notes
Bibliography
Index