Fan mail to Danish film stars in the 1910s: Exploring the agency and practices of early film fans

该项目调查了20世纪10年代影迷的出现以及早期影迷实践的建立和形成。这项调查没有像迄今为止的研究那样依赖第三方对影迷的描述，而是利用了两个新发现的、广泛收集的20世纪10年代影迷来信。这种全球独特的原始材料不仅使重建早期电影迷的机构和实践及其社会、文化、性别和年龄多样性成为可能。与此同时，"粉丝“及其粉丝群体的媒体表征的差异，也为粉丝和粉丝群体话语在各自的文化、社会和媒体历史语境中的功能化提供了启示。四个子项目将分析（1）谁是写信人作为社会和文化代理人，（2）如何写粉丝信的写作是作为一种实践在20世纪10年代，它是如何变化的，以及哪些话语策略和话语规则的信件展示，（3）什么样的球迷实践和自我-在信件中可以识别出“粉丝”和“粉丝群”的结构，以及这些结构与当时和后来的大众媒体结构的关系，（4）影迷视角对新电影史和全球化视野下的接受史的理论和具体贡献。

The project investigates the emergence of film fans in the 1910s as well as the establishment and formation of early film fan practices. Instead of relying on third-party accounts about film fans, as has been done in research so far, the investigation makes use of two newly discovered, extensive collections of fan letters from the 1910s. This globally unique source material not only makes it possible to reconstruct the agency and practices of early film fans and their sociological, cultural, gender and age diversity. At the same time, the difference to the media representation of ›the‹ fan and his/her fandom provides insights into the functionalization of the discourse on fans and fandom in the respective cultural, social and media-historical context. Four subprojects will analyze (1) who the letter writers were as social and cultural agents, (2) how the writing of fan letters was constituted as a practice in the 1910s and how it changed, as well as which discursive strategies and discourse regulations the letters exhibit, (3) what kind of fan practices and self-constructions of ›fan‹ and ›fandom‹ are recognizable in the letters and how these relate to the contemporaneous and later mass media constructions, (4) what the fan perspective can contribute theoretically and specifically to the historiography of a New Cinema History and to a reception history with a globalized outlook.