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‘It’s all my interpretation: Reading Spike through the subcultural celebrity of James Marsters
Ist Teil von
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2005-08, Vol.8 (3), p.345-365
Ort / Verlag
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article considers how fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and
Angel interpret the character of Spike through meanings attached to actor
James Marsters as a ‘subcultural celebrity’. Work on
TV’s celebrity actors has stressed how character and actor can become
semiotically blurred. Rather than approaching this blurring of textual and
extra-textual connotations as an essential property of television celebrity, we
analyse how Marsters displays situated agency by discursively constructing
‘himself’ in publicity materials as ‘like
Spike’. We then consider Marsters as a reader of Buffy. As a
subcultural celebrity, we argue that Marsters is positioned between media producers
and media fans, and therefore is able to offer up privileged interpretations of
‘his’ character, Spike, while simultaneously observing the
symbolic power of producers’ preferred readings. Marsters supports certain
fan readings of Spike, acting as a textual poacher who nevertheless is
‘inside’ the texts of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.