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zebra_in_dream ([personal profile] zebra_in_dream) wrote in [community profile] fanlore 2011-06-20 08:39 pm (UTC)

So you are introducing a crutch term so you can include RPF under media type; using a term hardly known outside of academics to categorize in one category a bunch of very different media types, but are keeping books (does this include artbooks, travelbooks, biographies, etc?) and film (on AO3 that excludes Anime (now to be found included under Sequential Art & Animation in your scheme), but includes Cartoons (now to be found included under Sequential Art & Animation)) as crutches so people don't get confused were to find their stuff.

Are people suddenly supposed to know that Sequential Art means comics and manga and that they apparently need to be kept apart from books and literature (to me that reeks a bit as if comics and manga were lesser than literature).

And where is the cut, when is a book a Book and not a comic or picture book? How much or little animation must be in a movie to consider it as a film? When is a film a film (shown in cinema - of what size, shown only as one single unit, only having x number of parts)? Will they than be dual stuffed under both categories?

And why aren't books part of the potential Media Fandom category? Aren't books media, too?

It seems to me that the whole thing is done rather half-heartedly and one-sided.

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