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June 23, 2020 at 5:00 am #200
Beliz Yilmaz
ParticipantI would define fan fiction as creating a new storyline from a story of a piece of work such as a novel or a TV show etc. It is mostly created for the enjoyment of fans of that particular work. In this type of genre, fans can take the story to any extent they wish. On the other hand, adaptation is taking a story or a character and bringing the context to a new medium while sticking to the original work. Some examples of adaptation can be writing a video game or a movie based on a novel. In adaptation, authors can add new details to the original story or change the story so little that it doesn’t affect the storyline.
My understanding is that fanfiction is freer to go out of context and explore the ideas in a particular storyline or the characters in a story and adaptation is closer to the original work but being ‘adapted’ to a different medium. Adaptation respects the original work and broadens the story. Fanfiction creates your own story based on the original story.
June 23, 2020 at 12:43 pm #216Grant Glass
KeymasterHi Beliz,
It does seem audience and intention play a huge role in categorizing fanfiction. If something consciously tries to fit itself into fanfiction, then it seems like we would label it as such. However, this gets into the author’s intension. Do we think the author’s intension is important or is it how the audience reacts and consumes the text important?
The most common types of adaptation are remediation (moving from one medium to another), however, as I discussed in lecture, adaptation needs to have some sort of bite, some sort of motivation (outside of trying to make more money) to make a comment about the text or society.
Do you think fanfiction doesn’t respect the work enough or do you think it respects it too much?
June 23, 2020 at 1:44 pm #224Alan Glover
ParticipantIn response to your question regarding an author’s intent and audience reactions:
From my current understanding of an authors intent and audience reactions, I believe both are equally important. When examining an authors intent we must take into account the time period of the work and the societal views. Assuming the author’s views agree with their society, then their intent may be the same as the audience’s reaction to what they perceive the work to be.
While the examining the audience’s reactions separately, this os subject to change because various generations are able to read an author’s work, and different generational audiences may perceive an author’s intent in a different way. Therefore, I think both should receive equal consideration, but often times the audience reactions take priority as the author’s work is now in the public where its meaning is no longer confined to the author’s definition.
June 24, 2020 at 4:52 am #262Beliz Yilmaz
ParticipantI agree with the idea that suggests the author’s intent and the audience’s reactions to the text are equally important when looking at a text. There might be certain circumstances that might cause the audience’s interpretation of the text not to fit into the intentions that the author had when writing a particular text. Circumstances such as different societies, different time periods, different cultures, age differences, etc… In this case, I believe that the audience is free to interpret the text based on the circumstances he/she lives in and the intentions of the author should be credited but do not limit the perception of the reader.
In response to whether I think fanfiction doesn’t respect to work or respect it too much, I am not sure yet. However, I would say it has the freedom to not respect it. (This is only my humble opinion, though.)
June 24, 2020 at 10:46 pm #317Grant Glass
KeymasterBeliz, I really like your line of analysis here. Like most things, both aspects matter (the author and the audience). What do you think about art that most consider timeless? how does this fit into the circumstances?
June 26, 2020 at 9:03 am #359Beliz Yilmaz
ParticipantI just now saw your question, my apologies!
I think (some) art, in some ways, fits into a certain time period as well as other pieces of works. Just like a writer of a book puts some of himself/herself into his/her book, an artist does the same either consciously or unconsciously. It’s inevitable. As human beings, we tend to belong to the time period we live in, don’t we?
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