Fanlore's Journal

Right, yeah--and in fact, hilariously, this is true in the academy too. I personally think "text" is totally a kind of "media", but traditional English Lit departments often don't: they think books and media are different. So it's my understanding that in the 1970s, "media fans" broke away from literary sf fandom that was snotty about/unwelcoming to TV, film etc. the way that media studies and communication (what, books aren't communication??) broke away from English lit. So it wasn't a division between languages or even live action vs. animation--I'd say that both animation would both have been welcome in "media" fandom" --it was that tv, film, etc was not always welcome in the science fiction book fandoms that existed before (and still exist, obviously!)