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Theater of the Obsessed Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School April 2020 Theater of the Obsessed Cynthia Sampson Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations Part of the Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Sampson, Cynthia, "Theater of the Obsessed" (2020). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 5207. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/5207 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized graduate school editor of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please [email protected]. THEATER OF THE OBSESSED A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Communication Studies by Cynthia Sampson B.A., University of Missouri, 2012 M.A., Auburn University, 2014 May 2020 Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1 The Historemix ............................................................................................................ 2 1.2 Equipment for Being a Lesbian .................................................................................. 4 1.3 Welcome! Everything is Fine. ..................................................................................... 5 1.4 Overview of Chapters (A Mousepad Moment) ........................................................... 6 1.5 T-Shirt, Hairshirt, I’ll Keep This Short ....................................................................... 8 1.6 An Interlude .............................................................................................................. 10 Chapter 2. Introduction Part Deux, The Sequel ................................................................ 11 2.1 Audience Studies for Performance ........................................................................... 14 2.2 Fan Studies ............................................................................................................... 21 2.3 Queer Worldmaking ................................................................................................. 32 Chapter 3. The Method ...................................................................................................... 41 3.1 Ha Ha Nanette .......................................................................................................... 41 3.2 Mary (Ci)xous ........................................................................................................... 43 3.3 Punception Is a Joke Someone Else Made First ...................................................... 44 3.4 To Eth or To Auto-Eth? ............................................................................................ 45 3.5 My Mystory Story ..................................................................................................... 49 3.6 Digging Up Bones (Booooooooooone‽) ................................................................... 53 3.7 Big Wide Image Picture ............................................................................................ 56 Chapter 4. You Can Take the Fan out of the Audience, But That’s about It .................... 58 4.1 In Which I Introduce Some Terms ........................................................................... 59 4.2 In Which I Examine Why Theater Fandom is a Productive Site ........................... 60 4.3 In Which I Cliffs Notes an Important Debate ......................................................... 62 4.4 In Which I Re-examine Why Theater Fandom Is a Productive Site ....................... 64 4.5 In Which I Make Some Productive Cite(ations) ...................................................... 65 4.6 In Which I Introduce the Main Events .................................................................... 67 4.7 In Which I Drink the Pinot Noir .............................................................................. 70 4.8 In Which I Most Certainly Did the Reading (I Did Not Do the Reading) ............... 76 4.9 In Which I Went from Athlete to Athletic Supporter .............................................. 79 4.10 In Which I Didn’t Get the Joke .............................................................................. 81 4.11 In Which I Made Contact ........................................................................................ 86 4.12 In Which I Meet Sarah Schulman .......................................................................... 89 4.13 In Which #RentIsOverParty .................................................................................. 90 4.14 In Which I Conclude the Chapter .......................................................................... 90 Chapter 5. Watching (Bad) TV with Good (Straight) People ............................................ 92 5.1 In Which I Am Live! With Gramma and Papaw ...................................................... 94 5.2 In Which I Account for My Daily Habits ................................................................. 95 5.3 In Which I Learn Academic Words for My Lived Experience ................................. 98 5.4 In Which I Am Gullible .......................................................................................... 101 5.5 In Which I Vid ........................................................................................................ 102 5.6 In Which I Must Chose Cute or Good .................................................................... 106 ii 5.7 In Which I Took Advantage of the Perks ............................................................... 107 5.8 In Which #DeadLesbianSyndrome Makes TV Hard ............................................. 108 5.9 In Which I Eat Fire, Too ......................................................................................... 110 5.10 In Which I Slash .................................................................................................... 112 5.11 In Which I Consider the Merits of Face Touching ................................................ 114 5.12 In Which I Walk Home from Writing ................................................................... 116 5.13 In Which I Start a New Daily Habit ..................................................................... 120 5.14 In Which I Met a Girl ............................................................................................ 122 5.15 In Which I Conclude the Chapter ......................................................................... 125 Chapter 6. Conclusions, or Thank You for Being an Aca-Friend ................................... 126 6.1 In Which I Saw God or Dog or Both or Neither ..................................................... 127 6.2 In Which I Lose by Winning .................................................................................. 128 6.3 In Which I Coin Acafriends, a Joke ....................................................................... 129 6.4 In Which I Fangirl about Scholar .......................................................................... 130 6.5 In Which I Have Thoughts about Relations .......................................................... 132 6.6 The Last Place You Look Through the Window .................................................... 133 6.7 In Which I Encounter TPQ33 ................................................................................ 135 6.8 Just Gals Being Pals ............................................................................................... 136 6.9 In Which I Make a Joke ......................................................................................... 137 6.10 In Which Snake Eats Tail ..................................................................................... 137 6.11 In Which I Remind Myself of a Very Important Fact ........................................... 139 6.12 In Which I Cosplay as Faculty .............................................................................. 140 6.13 Conversation with a Friend ................................................................................... 141 6.14 & Is ........................................................................................................................ 143 Reference List .................................................................................................................. 145 Vita ................................................................................................................................... 153 iii Abstract Theater of the Obsessed uses fandom to illustrate how audiencing can be a form of queer worldmaking. I begin by establishing that audiencing is a process that takes place over time and is not confined to the seat you’re sitting in while consuming various media. Because audiencing is a nearly invisible process, I turn to fandom and fanworks to demonstrate what some of the other parts look like. From there, I take a mystorical approach. That is, I use mystory to braid my personal audiencing, popular culture examples, and professional scholarship together to create a wide image. What becomes apparent is the overlap between the transformative potential
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