Dark Shadows
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[edit] Introduction
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[edit] The Show
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[edit] Show release information
The show premiered on television on June 27, 1966 in the United States. [1] The show premiered on television on September 14, 1992 in Finland.[2] In 2005, the show was released on DVD in the United States.
[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.
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[edit] History
[edit] Conventions
Members of the fandom were known to, according to a LiveJournal comment, fake illnesses in order to get to the front of autograph lines at Dark Shadows conventions.
[edit] Fan Fiction
The Dark Shadows fan fiction community was a small, tight knit community. It had several long term members of the Star Trek fandom as part of it. These fen contributed to the shape and scope of the various fannish activities in the community's early days. By 1975, the community had enough support to put together a fandom only convention. This convention was ShadowCon. It was the first national Dark Shadows convention and was organized by fans of the show. The community was still actively producing fanzines. In 1979, the fanzine, Shadowgram started publication. It was one of a number of actively published zines this year. In 1980, the World Federation of Dark Shadows Club, now the Dark Shadows Official Fan Club, was founded.
During the 1980s, multi-fandom fandom zines were circulating. If a fan wanted to read a story from their particular fandom, they may well have to read the story in a zine that contained stories outside their fandom. According to Langley, this would often gateway fans into other communities, creating in them an interest that would lead them to seek out the source material. This would help a number of fandoms including Battlestar Galactica, Blake's 7, Dark Shadows, Doctor Who, Man from UNCLE, Star Trek, Star Wars and others.
On August 26, 2004, the LiveJournal fan fiction community dsfanfics was created. [3]
For additional details on fanzines, see Dark Shadows fanzines.
[edit] National communities
[edit] Netherlands
On Jaunary 15, 2006, a Dutch language article about Dark Shadows was created on Wikipedia. [4] It remained pretty stub like well into 2008 with no edits having been made in 2007.
[edit] Role playing
On December 26, 2005, the LiveJournal role playing community darkshadows_rpg was created. [5]
On July 21, 2006, the MySpace role playing group darkshadowsrpg was created. [6]
[edit] Social Networking Sites
[edit] Bebo
There is no cohesive Dark Shadows community on bebo. [7]
[edit] LiveJournal
The Dark Shadows community on LiveJournal was largely inactive in 2007 and 2008.
On March 28, 2002, the LiveJournal community dark_shadows_ (LiveJournal)dark_shadows_ was created. [8] On August 26, 2004, the LiveJournal fan fiction community dsfanfics was created. [9] On December 26, 2005, the LiveJournal role playing community darkshadows_rpg was created. [10] On September 1, 2007, the LiveJournal communty alongdarkshadow was created. [11]
[edit] MySpace
There is not much of a Dark Shadows community on MySpace.
On July 21, 2006, the MySpace role playing group darkshadowsrpg was created. [12]
On August 22, 2006, the MySpace group darkshadowstvshow was created. [13]
On July 12, 2007, the MySpace group Collinwood was created. [14]
[edit] Wikis
On January4, 2003, an English language article about Dark Shadows was created on Wikipedia. [15] A lot of edting on the article took place in 2005. [16] The article really became active in 2006 with over 250 edits being done on the article.
On Jaunary 15, 2006, a Dutch language article about Dark Shadows was created on Wikipedia. [17] It remained pretty stub like well into 2008 with no edits having been made in 2007.
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Influential communities
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[edit] Influential fanworks
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[edit] Fandom members
See Dark Shadows fan.
[edit] Fandom size
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[edit] External links
- Dark Shadows: FanWorksFinder
- Dark Shadows: IMDB
- Dark Shadows: TV.com
- Dark Shadows Wiki
- Dark Shadows Books at Cultural Studies Press - Featuring books on Dark Shadows
- Dark Shadows Journal Online - Dark Shadows news, information and interviews
- Dark Shadows: Resurrected - Dedicated to the 1991 revival series
- Dark Shadows Showcase - Festival photos, animations, pictures, music, creative writings, etc.
- Dark Shadows Audio Dramas - Official Dark Shadows audio dramas from Big Finish Productions
- Dark Shadows Festival
- Dark Shadows author Elizabeth Massie's Web site
- Dark Shadows Message Board
- Dark Shadows author Stephen Mark Rainey's Web site
- Dark Shadows – May 2002 appreciation by Joyce Millman, salon.com. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
[edit] Sources
- Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers Television Fans & Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.
- Verba, Joan Marie. Boldly Writing a Trekker Fan and Zine History 1967-1987. Minnetonka, Minn: FTL Publications, 1996
