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It’s a Fanboy’s World: How Cinephile Blogs Perpetuate a Sexist Hollywood

Jacobs, Jillian Kathleen
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1285035004

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2010, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Ohio University, Film.
In the age of constant Internet consumption, the geeky film audience demographic known as the “fanboy” is enjoying an unprecedented influence over the type of films Hollywood releases. An onslaught of superhero movies, comic book adaptations, and remakes produced in the last decade are no doubt the result of fanboys gaining credibility as critics through popular film blogs now frequented by Hollywood insiders. Instead of opening up the cinematic discourse online, however, these blogs only appear to serve as an extension of the male over female privilege nurtured by the Hollywood film industry since its inception. By focusing an overwhelming majority of attention on male centric films behind and in front of the camera, as well as fostering a community of hatred and degradation towards women in reader comments, these blogs succeed in deterring female fans from adding their perspective to the cinematic discourse, to the detriment of the quality of Hollywood films.
Jeanette Buck (Advisor)
Tom Hayes (Committee Member)
Maureen Wagner (Committee Member)
72 p.
Communication; Cultural Anthropology; Demographics; Fine Arts; Gender; Mass Media; Motion Pictures; Womens Studies
Gender; Hollywood; Fanboys; Blogs; Sexism; Audience; Fandom

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  • Jacobs, J. K. (2010). It’s a Fanboy’s World: How Cinephile Blogs Perpetuate a Sexist Hollywood [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1285035004

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jacobs, Jillian. It’s a Fanboy’s World: How Cinephile Blogs Perpetuate a Sexist Hollywood. 2010. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1285035004.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jacobs, Jillian. "It’s a Fanboy’s World: How Cinephile Blogs Perpetuate a Sexist Hollywood." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1285035004

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