Please respond to the prompts in full sentences. Each response should be around 100 words (80-120). When possible, make specific references to the original text and/or incorporate short quotes or details. There is no right answer to these prompts; they are designed to help you think about our readings.
1. Maris argues that Xena fans were able to exert significant queer influence on mainstream televisual narratives, representing a mode of audience-industry coproduction. Describe this queer influence and explain what Maris means by audience-industry coproduction. In what ways were fans co-producers?
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2. Maris argues that queer fans were able to have such a strong influence over Xenas content because they were operating online in the early days of the commercial internet. Summarize Mariss argument about why this context matters for how fans and producers interacted. Do you agree with Maris that fans couldnt have the same level of influence on the internet today?
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3. How does watching the episode of Xena support or change your understanding of the Maris article? Do you see the queer subtexts that the fans saw? Do you agree with Maris that the shows queerness didnt become apparent until later episodes, after the fans influenced producers?
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4. Connect this reading and screening back to the Henry Jenkins chapter, Get a Life! Jenkins writes that fans fragment texts and reassemble the broken shards according to their own blueprints, salvaging bits and pieces of the found material in making sense of their own social experience (26). How does the case of Xena fans illustrate this fan behavior in action?
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Requirements: 400
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