![]() ![]() Sam and Dean go out there looking for things that are strange and unfamiliar and they end up seeing themselves and their relationship more clearly. They represent unresolved emotional issues, often within the context of family life, and they are also external correlatives for the emotional drama taking place in the lives of the series' protagonists. " In Supernatural, the monsters are, in effect, emotional scars and psychic wounds. In January, 2007, Henry Jenkins admitted to being a Supernatural fan, and blogged about his thoughts on the show : His work valued the work of fandom as being creative and having meaning, rather than seeing them as trivial reworkings of mass entertainment. His best known work is Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, which put forward the idea of fans as active creators of culture - fan fiction, fan art, fan vids etc - from content they “poached” from mass media. ![]() Jenkins describes himself as an aca-fan – part academic, part fan. Jenkins has been an influential figure in fandom. ![]() Henry Jenkins is Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the M.I.T. ![]()
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