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

该项目调查了1910年代影迷的出现，以及早期影迷习俗的建立和形成。调查没有像目前的研究那样依赖第三方关于影迷的账户，而是利用了两个新发现的、广泛收集的1910年代的影迷信件。这一全球独一无二的素材不仅使重建早期影迷的机构和做法以及他们的社会、文化、性别和年龄多样性成为可能。同时，《粉丝》和《粉丝》在媒体表征上的不同，也为粉丝话语在不同的文化、社会和媒介历史语境下的功能化提供了新的视角。四个子项目将分析(1)书信作者是谁作为社会和文化代理人；(2)粉丝书信的写作在1910年代是如何构成一种实践的，它是如何变化的，以及书信展示了哪些话语策略和话语规则；(3)书信中可识别出什么样的粉丝实践和自我建构，这些与当时和后来的大众媒体建设有何关系；(4)粉丝视角在理论上，特别是对新电影史的史学和全球化视野下的接受史有什么贡献。

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.