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It Happens at Comic-ConIt Happens at Comic-Con

It Happens at Comic-Con

Ben Bolling, Matthew J. Smith

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"This collection of 13 new 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"--

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OL Work ID
OL21068477W

Subjects

Collectors and collectingComic books, strips, etc., marketingPopular culture, united statesComic book fansSocial aspectsComic books, stripsMarketingPopular cultureSan Diego Comic-ConSan Diego Comic-Con. (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86813030 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n86813030

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