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The Cumulative Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fandoms of Penny Dreadful

dc.contributor.authorMendes, Ana Cristina
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-12T14:08:54Z
dc.date.available2021-07-12T14:08:54Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractGiven the remarkable speed at which adaptations are being made, the new formats of adaptations in the digital age, and the more active role of audiences, assuming authorial contours, the participatory dimensions of the adaptation process are ever more in need of tracking and continual analysis. Operating in a very competitive market of cultural and entertainment offerings, in a fast-changing media environment which is increasingly fragmented, and in a context of TV online and in-the-hand, where the contents produced by broadcasters compete for the attention of audiences, creators and producers have to cater for the growing participatory dimensions of screen adaptations. Already heightened in an age of participatory and collaborative web cultures, such adaptations of neo-Victorian texts duplicate the participatory role of audiences and encourage user-created content in the sense that such texts, as defined by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (2010, 4), are themselves “self-consciously engaged with the act of (re)interpretation, (re)discovery and (re)vision concerning the Victorians”. One of the arguments this chapter advances is that in the neo-Victorian TV series Penny Dreadful (Showtime/Sky 2014-16) relies on the fact that the fandom of Victorian period drama is enduring. Various forms of knowledge mediate the reception of this period TV series – knowledge of the conventions of Victorian screen adaptations and broader textual conventions of Victoriana – to the extent that Penny Dreadful’s fan following results from cumulative Victorian and neo-Victorian fandoms. The notion of cumulative fandoms echoes and upgrades, to some extent, Joy Gould Boyum’s observation in the 1980s that filmmakers use adaptation in a conscious attempt to extend to the film the prestige of the novel, a condition that would favour, from the outset, the commercial success of the production; in Boyum’s words (1985, 5), “to adapt a prestigious work … was – and in fact still is – to borrow a bit of that work’s quality and stature”.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationMendes, AC. 2021. “The Cumulative Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fandoms of Penny Dreadful”. In Filming the Past, Screening the Present. Eds. Shannon Wells-Lassagne and Eckart Voigts. SALS – Studies in Anglophone Literatures Series. Volume 44. Trier: WVT – Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 141-154.pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-86821-907-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/48871
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherWVT – Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trierpt_PT
dc.subjectNeo-Victorianismpt_PT
dc.subjectVictorian cultural studiespt_PT
dc.subjectTV seriespt_PT
dc.subjectAdaptation studiespt_PT
dc.subjectVictorian literaturept_PT
dc.subjectVisual culturept_PT
dc.titleThe Cumulative Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fandoms of Penny Dreadfulpt_PT
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oaire.citation.endPage164pt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleFilming the Past, Screening the Presentpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume44pt_PT
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