Exploring Doctor Who Fandom Through Screenwriting Practice-As-Research

This book explores the diversity of fans and how they form and express their identity within fandom. Readers that would be interested in this book are scholars and students of fandom theory, screenwriting practice, and those interested in the development and expression of identity as a fan.

Kathryn Beaton has a doctorate in Philosophy, Media, and Communications from RMIT University and a Masters in Screenwriting from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Introduction 1. Screenwriting Practice Methodology and Fan Studies 2. Fanwriting Practices: Meta, Fanfic, and Representation 3. Cosplay: Identity Formation and Performance 4. Conventions: Locating Fandom 5. Collecting: Fan Activity and Identity Formation 5. Otherness and Intersectionality. Conclusion