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July 06 2007

Fandom of the Opera. "The musical has become a centerpiece for one of the community's shared rituals," says some guy from MIT.

OK, he's Henry Jenkins, the codirector of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A few new tidbits in article on the musical phenom.

Joss Whedon, the series creator and a musical-theater buff, recently startled [Buffy Musical Big Screen Extravaganza organizer Clinton] McClung by slipping into the back row of a Los Angeles screening. "I was totally bowled over. I had no idea he was there," McClung says.

Pointy | BtVS | 06:34 CET | 2 comments total | tags: once more with feeling, buffy-oke, bunnies are not evil just misunderstood

*rofl* Jenkins is a pretty big deal. He has a great blog, and he coedited From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. He's one of those academics whose work is actually fun to read. totally0random | July 06, 19:49 CET

Thank you for the tip, totally0random!

[ edited by Pointy on 2007-07-06 21:45 ]

Pointy | July 07, 00:44 CET

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