Re: Anti-intellectualism in fandom

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Paul Dormer escreveu:
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> LBRatner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Lee Ratner) wrote:
>
> >    Apparently there is a slice of fandom that is more than a little
> > anti-intellectual and really
> >  can't stand cultural analysis of fannish movies. If I have to guess
> > why, I'd say they do not
> > like what such analysis reveals about themselves.
> >
> >      Any other opinions/observations?
>
> Well, I've been reading academic criticism of SF and fantasy for well
> over thirty years.  I bought an academic book about Tolkien when I was
> at university in the early seventies.  (Tolkien and the Critics, 1968.
> I'm sure many physics students were reading Tolkien then, but I don't
> know how many were reading academic books about him.)
>
> Also, I've been involved with the Science Fiction Foundation for many
> years, which publishes a journal three times a year of academic stuff.
>
> The attitude I've found in general fandom is not that they don't like
> what the academics say about the fans but that the academics don't
> understand the tropes of the genre they are attempting to analyse, and
> get hold of the wrong end of the stick.
>
> I remember being involved in a fannish discussion of Babylon 5 a few
> years ago and I mentioned a book The Parliament of Dreams which was
> published by the Foundation and contained papers presented at an
> academic conference on Babylon 5.  This was dismissed, without having
> been read, as the usual mishmash of misunderstandings and the like.  Of
> course, I had to disagree. :-)
>
> I was rather pleased when the Cambridge Companion won the Hugo at
> Interaction back in 2005.  I know the editors, and Farah Mendlesohn was
> convinced they didn't have a chance of winning.  (As Hugo administrator
> that year, I had great trouble trying not to give the game away when I
> met the editors before the ceremony.)  When they accepted the award,
> Farah said something along the lines "Why did you vote this?  Don't you
> realise it's a text book?"