2021
Morimoto, Lori
Alternative Pedagogies at Fan Studies Network North America 2020 Journal Article
In: Transformative Works and Cultures, 35 , pp. n.p., 2021.
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Paul Booth Lori Morimoto, Ross Garner
Transcultural Fan Studies in Practice: A Conversation Journal Article
In: Transformative Works and Cultures, 35 , pp. n.p., 2021.
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At the end of 2018, a group of fan scholars led by Lori Morimoto journeyed to Japan for a fan studies field trip. The purpose was multifaceted: to speak at a symposium on transcultural popular culture; to bring together fans and fandom studies from both sides of the Pacific; and to augment their classrooms with practical experience. Eight participants share their experiences and reflect on what it means to be a transcultural fan scholar at the dawning of the 2020s.
2020
Hutton, Zina; Klink, Flourish; Morimoto, Lori; Pande, Rukmini
"The Culture of Fandom on Tumblr: A Roundtable Discussion" Book Chapter
In: McCracken, Alison; Cho, Alex; Hoch, Indira Neill; Stein, Louisa (Ed.): A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, Chapter 16, pp. 167-180, University of Michigan Press, 2020, ISBN: 978-0-472-90129-6.
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2019
Morimoto, Lori
"(Trans)Cultural Legibility and Online Yuri!!! on Ice Fandom" Journal Article
In: Mechademia Second Arc, 12 (1), pp. 136-159, 2019.
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Morimoto, Lori
"Hannibal: Adaptation and Authorship in the Age of Fan Production" Book Chapter
In: Finn, Kavita Mudan; Nielsen, EJ (Ed.): Becoming: Genre, Queerness and Transformation in NBC's Hannibal, Chapter 13, pp. 258-282, Syracuse University Press, 2019, ISBN: 9780815636366.
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Morimoto, Lori
"Physical Disability in/and Transcultural Fandom: Conversations with my Spouse" Journal Article
In: The Journal of Fandom Studies, 7 (1), pp. 73-77, 2019.
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This article, in contrast with more traditional forms of scholarly engagement, draws heavily on an interview I conducted with my spouse, who is a physically disabled fan of science fiction and fantasy, to help illuminate some of the complexities of my own area of research, transcultural fandoms. Often, when we write about disability and fandom (to the extent that we do at all), our emphasis is on issues of the accessibility of physical and virtual fan spaces. I take that up here as well, metaphorically sobbing over yet another mobility scooter damaged at the hands of possibly well-intentioned airline staff; but the article quickly comes to focus more on the multiple subjectivities that inflect any experience of fandom, including that of disabled fans. Particularly insofar as my spouse is a disabled Asian-American (Japanese/Korean) man and experiences fandom through the sometimes-conflicting lenses of race and ethnicity, disability, gender and functional heteronormativity, the experiences and impressions he recounts here reflect my own work on the fundamentally transcultural nature of fandoms and fans, in which ‘culture’ denotes not only nation-centred practices, but also those of the many subjectivities that comprise our identities.
Morimoto, Lori
"From Imagined Communities to Contact Zones: American Monoculture in Transatlantic Fandoms" Book Chapter
In: Pearson, Roberta; Hilmes, Michele; Hills, Matt (Ed.): Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans, Chapter 13, pp. 273-290, Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN: 9780190663124.
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2018
Morimoto, Lori; Stein, Louisa
"Editorial: Tumblr and Fandom" Journal Article
In: Transformative Works and Cultures, 27 , 2018.
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Morimoto, Lori
"The 'Totoro Meme' and the Politics of Transfandom Pleasure" Journal Article
In: East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 4 (1), pp. 77-92, 2018.
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This article is an exploration of the ‘Totoro meme’ as a site of affective, transfandom pleasure. In the Totoro meme, Japanese and non-Japanese fans alike appropriate the now-iconic image of Satsuki, Mei and an umbrella-toting Totoro at a bus stop from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 film, Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), to their own fannish ends, creating fan art that inserts favourite characters from other media into the scene in ways that often have a doubled semiotic resonance. I argue that this meme is characteristic not of the global appropriation of a broad ‘Japanese anime style’, per se, but a specific, affectively appealing ‘Ghibli style’, one that is fully part of non-Japanese fans’ own popular cultural repertoires. In its cross-border merging of globally circulating Studio Ghibli aesthetics with other fan-favourite media, I contend that the Totoro meme and its associated fanworks are in fact wholly congruent with, and representative of, what Matt Hills has termed ‘trans-fandom’ (2015), contemporary practices of ‘navigating across and combining and fusing fandoms’ (Hills 2015: 159). I conclude with a consideration of the implications of what might be termed ‘corporate transfandom’ in the context of transfannish citations of Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind) (Miyazaki, 1984) in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015).
Morimoto, Lori
"Ontological Security and the Politics of Transcultural Fandom" Book Chapter
In: Booth, Paul (Ed.): A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, pp. 257-275, Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, ISBN: 9781119237211.
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Shrestova, Sanghita; Morimoto, Lori
"The State of Fandom Studies 2018: Lori Morimoto & Sanghita Shrestova" Online
Jenkins, Henry (Ed.): 2018.
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2017
Morimoto, Lori
"Transnational Media Fan Studies" Book Chapter
In: Scott, Suzanne; Click, Melissa (Ed.): The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, Chapter 29, pp. 280-288, Routledge, 2017, ISBN: 9781138638921.
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The terms ‘fandom’, ‘fan’, and even ‘fan studies’ appear to be, at first glance, self-evident. But considered in the context of both fan cultures and scholarship outside the English language-centered West, we begin to see the assumptions that underlie them. Whether we are talking about Japanese fans of manga and anime (somewhat codified itself, both given the diversity of Japanese fan practices and objects, as well as non-Western fandoms generally), the Korean Wave, Nigerian fans of Bollywood films, and so on, scholarship of ‘transnational media fans’ is often confined to the periphery by virtue of its seeming irrelevance to the work of fan studies proper. It might be argued that such practices and cultures actually were peripheral to English language, Western fandoms of the past, part of an analog era in which transnational media distribution and circulation were firmly under the control of media corporations, and fandoms around the world seldom mixed. Yet, in disregarding even these bygone fan cultures, we demonstrate a somewhat alarming lack of interest in a comparative approach to fan studies; one that, in turn, reifies the foundational concepts of fan studies—transformative works, gift economy, affirmational fandom, among others—to reflect little more than our own English language habitus.
Morimoto, Lori; Chin, Bertha
"Reimagining the Imagined Community: Online Fandoms in the Age of Global Convergence" Book Chapter
In: Gray, Jonathan; Sandvoss, Cornell; Harrington, C. Lee (Ed.): Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, Second Edition, pp. 174-189, New York University Press, 2017, ISBN: 9781479812769.
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Creekmur, Corey; Kohnen, Melanie; McIntosh, Jonathan; Morimoto, Lori; Morrissey, Katherine; Scott, Suzanne; Stein, Louisa
"Roundtable on Videographic Criticism: Vidding and Remix" Miscellaneous
2017.
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Morimoto, Lori
"Sherlock (Holmes) in Japanese (Fan) Works" Journal Article
In: Transformative Works and Cultures, 23 , 2017.
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2016
Morimoto, Lori
"hannibal: a fanvid" Journal Article
In: [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 3 (4), 2016.
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Morimoto, Lori Hitchcock
"The Good Fandom: Depicting Japanese Female Fans in Moonlight Express, Moumantai, and Hong Kong Star Fans" Book Chapter
In: Booth, Paul; Bennett, Lucy (Ed.): Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture, Chapter 23, pp. 239-250, Bloomsbury, 2016, ISBN: 9781501318450.
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2015
Chin, Bertha; Morimoto, Lori Hitchcock
"Editorial: Fan and Fan Studies in Transnational Context" Journal Article
In: Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 12 (2), pp. 174-179, 2015.
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2013
Morimoto, Lori Hitchcock
"Trans-cult-ural Fandom: Desire, Technology, and the Transformation of Fan Subjectivities in the Japanese Female Fandom of Hong Kong Stars" Journal Article
In: Transformative Works and Cultures, 14 , 2013.
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Chin, Bertha; Morimoto, Lori Hitchcock
"Towards a Theory of Transcultural Fandom" Journal Article
In: Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 10 (1), pp. 92-108, 2013.
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In this discussion, we advocate for a broad(er) model of transcultural fandom studies that,
in shifting focus to the affective affinities that spark fan interest in transcultural fan objects,
is intended as a corrective to nation-centred analyses of border-crossing fandoms. It is our
contention that the binary approach to transnational fandom maintained by media
globalisation scholars such as Koichi Iwabuchi, writing in the East Asian context, does little
to advance our understanding of both why fans engage in cross-border fandoms, and the
implications of fannish activity on how we understand the global flow of media texts. In this
essay, we consider an alternative approach to transcultural fandoms that is concerned less
with nations than with fans themselves. We seek here neither to redeem nor condemn fans,
but rather to situate them within their myriad contexts – not only sociopolitical and
economic, but equally popular and fan cultural, sexual, gender, and so on.
in shifting focus to the affective affinities that spark fan interest in transcultural fan objects,
is intended as a corrective to nation-centred analyses of border-crossing fandoms. It is our
contention that the binary approach to transnational fandom maintained by media
globalisation scholars such as Koichi Iwabuchi, writing in the East Asian context, does little
to advance our understanding of both why fans engage in cross-border fandoms, and the
implications of fannish activity on how we understand the global flow of media texts. In this
essay, we consider an alternative approach to transcultural fandoms that is concerned less
with nations than with fans themselves. We seek here neither to redeem nor condemn fans,
but rather to situate them within their myriad contexts – not only sociopolitical and
economic, but equally popular and fan cultural, sexual, gender, and so on.
2004
Hitchcock, Lori
"Third Culture Kids: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Language and Multiculturalism in Swallowtail Butterfly" Journal Article
In: Scope: An On-Line Journal of Film Studies, 2004.
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author = {Lori Hitchcock},
url = {https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2004/february-2004/hitchcock.pdf},
year = {2004},
date = {2004-02-01},
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2002
Hitchcock, Lori
"Transnational Film and the Politics of Becoming: Negotiating East Asian Identity in Hong Kong Night Club and Moonlight Express" Journal Article
In: Asian Cinema, 13 (1), pp. 67-86, 2002.
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title = {"Transnational Film and the Politics of Becoming: Negotiating East Asian Identity in Hong Kong Night Club and Moonlight Express"},
author = {Lori Hitchcock},
url = {https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ac/2002/00000013/00000001/art00008},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1386/ac.13.1.67_1},
year = {2002},
date = {2002-03-01},
journal = {Asian Cinema},
volume = {13},
number = {1},
pages = {67-86},
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