Coronation Street
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[edit] Introduction
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[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.
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[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
[edit] 1960
- On December 9, 1960, Coronation Street premiered on television in the United Kingdom. [1]
[edit] 1991
- In early 1991, corrie.net was created. [2]
[edit] 1995
- In 1995, Coronation Street Weekly Updates written for the internet and a subscription email service set up for fans to receive the weekly updates in their inbox every week. The updates are much loved, well written and funny. [3]
- On 30 May 1995, the usenet newsgroup ratucs (rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st) began. The ratucs group now be found via Google Groups and is still going strong. [4]
[edit] 2001
- On October 20, 2001, an English language article about Coronation Street was created on Wikipedia. [5]
[edit] 2003
- On February 22, 2003, the LiveJournal community corrie_fans was created. [6]
[edit] 2005
- On February 18, 2005, the LiveJournal community corriegoths was created. [7]
- On October 31, 2005, the commercial site Corrieblog.tv was launched by Shiny Media. [8]
[edit] 2007
- In 2007, Coronation Street Blog was created. [9]
- In May 2007, the bebo group DownCoronationStreet was created. [10]
- In August 2007, the bebo group Coro-St-2007 was created. [11]
- In August 2007, the bebo group coronationstreet01 was created. [12]
- In August 2007, the bebo group corofangroup was created. [13]
- In September 2007, the bebo group coronation1960 was created. [14]
- In October 2007, the bebo group coronation--street was created. [15]
- In December 2007, the bebo group BEBO_5101302672 was created. [16]
- In December 2007, the bebo group CoronationStreet- was created. [17]
[edit] 2008
- In February 2008, the bebo group BEBO_5877018118 was created. [18]
- In March 2008, the bebo group Xx-Liisa-x was created. [19]
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Fan Fiction
[edit] Attitudes Towards Slash
In August 1995, Rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st discussed Mike/Ken slash. The discussion was some what heated as slash did not seem to be a concept all participants were familiar with. One post in this discussion was made by Maria Enriquez Harris on August 8, 1995. It said:
- Further to Sarah Hearne's depraved idea that Mike and Ken might get hot
- for each other one day, following a row, my mind turned to the general
- idea of *slash* in Coro.
- *Slash*, for those who don't know (and I'm assuming it will be most of you
- on this group unless you are also heavily into "Blake's 7" or "*Star *
- * Trek*") is the name given among fans of "*Star Trek*" and some other cult TV
- shows, to same-sex relationships between the characters, often postulated
- in fan-written fiction, on the basis of subtle on-screen
- homoeroticism.The pairings are usually denoted as One/Other, hence '*slash*'.
- Some examples of classic '*slash*'
- relationships are Kirk/Spock,
- Blake/Avon, Bodie/Doyle. The whole phenomenon has been quite extensively
- written about by academics, too (try searching the on-line journal
- "Post-Modern Culture" for references to *slash*).
- Now, turning back to Coro. Is there a homoerotic tension between Ken and
- Mike? Myself, I think not; what most *slash* relationships seem to have in
- common is that even though they may be deeply opposed in their personal
- philosophies, the two characters are, at least, very close friends.
- There can be very little doubt that Ken and Mike's
- antagonism is
- genuinely deep-rooted. In my mind, actually, there's very little scope
- for *slash* in Coro (but then, I'm usually the last person I know to see it
- in anyone, including K/S, B/A, B/D.). Perhaps one could make a case for
- Rita/Bet? Alma/Gail? Des/Curly? Des?Andy? Mike/Steve? (Mike and Steve
- would have been lovers in Ancient Greece, natch, since an older man would
- teach his chosen, younger protege many things other than business etc!).
- Any other twisted ideas???
[edit] Influential Fanworks
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[edit] Fandom Members
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[edit] Fandom Size
As of July 22, 2008, there were 87 fans on FanPop [20]
[edit] External Links
- Coronation Street: FanPop
- Corrienet
- Coronation Street Weekly Updates
- Coronation Street Blog
- Corrieblog
- Corrie Canuck Canadian timeline blog
- Tvor's Downeast Coronation Street blog Another Canadian timeline blog
- Downeast Streeters Non Profit Society Fan group based in Halifax, Nova Scotia
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
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