We have recently turned to affect and emotions on all fronts in fan studies, positive, negative, the excess, the surplus of feelings seems to be at the center of what we do. I love the way you describe how the show effectively thematizes and performs this affect in what would offline be part of the DVD extras, right?
And by not naming the song, by it being 3:22 or 2:50 or *glances at ipod* 3:02, it becomes personalized at the same time as the feeling is universalized–among different fans and along our own historical timeline of fannish love…
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