What role does Hills (2004) suggest the fans play in the construction of cult TV? How is new media central to this?
Shows where the main character or characters are apart of a global community or strongly for or against an unpopular ideology which may cast them to the outer boundarys of media acceptance in my opinion causes popularity in equally segregated groups. Show where female main characters are as powerful as a man (or more so) and believe in the power of woman like Charmed and Xena often are neglected as serious television (because of their female leads) but its these types of shows that thrive in the cult television culture. "...to side with a more romantic version of cult status as somehow created by fans." (Hills p.510) Although I would agree with this remark on the surface out of my own synical views ont he media and the human race in general, I can't say that the fans are being lead completely by the producers and writers of such programming.'
REFERENCES
Hills, M. (2004). Defining Cult TV; Texts, Inter-texts and Fan Audiences, The Television Studies Reader, In R.C. Allen & A. Hall. Loondon.
This needs further development.
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