It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon

by Matthew J . Smith (Editor), Ben Bolling (Editor)

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  2014

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  This collection of 13 essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic-Con international, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 150,000 each summer.