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genre and the horizon of expectation
Sep. 7th, 2011 03:19 pmor, why adaptation to movies lets the zing out of genre work
all stories, all art, all work, exists as part of a conversation, massively multivocal and with strands going back to the beginning of humans. some stories, some art, some works, stand out, and say something new, something that pushes the limits you maybe weren't even aware were there, something that says, this is what we can do, this is what the genre can be. This is the power in it.
Fan works can do that, working in tension with the source text and the grab bag of tropes fans have been using and the general background of cultures. I have been reading from the voting long list on spec fic work, and watching the vids, and I keep on going back to the list to change my vote, usually away from some novel I've read years ago to some fan thing I just read or watched today. Because the novel, that was great when I read it, that did the brain flip thing, the new thought, the new way of looking at the world. But the fan works, those are the ones that show me a new angle here and now about the works I've spent the most time with for years. And they stand up as SF, and the really satisfying ones simply would not work with the serial numbers filed off or if you tried to detangle them from the fan discourses.
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all stories, all art, all work, exists as part of a conversation, massively multivocal and with strands going back to the beginning of humans. some stories, some art, some works, stand out, and say something new, something that pushes the limits you maybe weren't even aware were there, something that says, this is what we can do, this is what the genre can be. This is the power in it.
Fan works can do that, working in tension with the source text and the grab bag of tropes fans have been using and the general background of cultures. I have been reading from the voting long list on spec fic work, and watching the vids, and I keep on going back to the list to change my vote, usually away from some novel I've read years ago to some fan thing I just read or watched today. Because the novel, that was great when I read it, that did the brain flip thing, the new thought, the new way of looking at the world. But the fan works, those are the ones that show me a new angle here and now about the works I've spent the most time with for years. And they stand up as SF, and the really satisfying ones simply would not work with the serial numbers filed off or if you tried to detangle them from the fan discourses.
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