3 Dr Bethan Jones
episode 3 — academic and author, Dr Bethan Jones
Dr Bethan Jones is an academic and author of The Truth is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files (which is brilliant, and available in bookshops now). Bethan does lots of interesting research and scholarship on fan culture, cult television, online fan spaces, and fan fiction. In episode 3 of Hey Danny, It’s Mulder, Bethan talks about the cultural impact of The X-Files, the evolution of the fandom, and some of our favourite Darin Morgan episodes.
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Episode Notes
The notes from this episode turned into a really great reading list —
You can get a copy of The Truth is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files by Dr Bethan Jones at your local book shop, or online (paperback, hardback, or audiobook) — at Amazon UK or Amazon US — or from the publisher at Fayetteville Mafia Press.
The X-Files Official Guide series:
The Truth Is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry — ThriftBooks
Trust No One: The Official Third Season Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry — ThriftBooks
I Want To Believe: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Andy Meisler — ThriftBooks
Resist or Serve: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Andy Meisler — ThriftBooks
The End and the Beginning: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Andy Meisler — ThriftBooks
All Things: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Marc Shapiro — ThriftBooks
Deny All Knowledge: Reading the X-Files, edited by David Lavery, Angela Hague. and Marla Cartwright — Syracuse University Press.
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey — pdf hosted by Amherst College.
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, by Henry Jenkins — Routledge — Amazon UK — Amazon US.
Enterprising Women. Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth by Camille Bacon-Smith — University of Pennsylvania Press — Amazon UK — Amazon US
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice Radway — The University of North Carolina Press — Amazon UK — Amazon US
Fan Cultures by Matthew Hills — Routledge — Amazon UK — Amazon US
The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context by Sheenagh Pugh — Amazon US
The X-Files: The Official Archives (Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena) by Paul Terry — Abrams Books.
alt.tv.xfiles bbc cult message board
The episodes we spoke about in this episode are — Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose (IMDB) — Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’ (IMDB) — The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (IMDB)
The YouTube channel I mentioned at the end was Sketchney, who is awesome. I especially love Sketchney’s ‘Tiering The X-Files’ series — Sketchney on YouTube
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