The Clothes Make the Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom when Buffy the Vampire Slayer Goes to eBay
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Cinema Journal
- Vol. 45 (4), 26-44
- https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2006.0048
Abstract
The public's reception of eBay's auction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer wardrobe items marked an instructive collision of online fandom, television production/consumption and e-commerce. As opportunities for critique and fantasy production, the clothes crystallized tensions within the series and among fans: between ownership and authorship; a viable feminist politics and the sexualization of cast and characters; the perceived egalitarianism of online communities and eBay's explicit competitiveness.Keywords
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