Lori Morimoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4896153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori Morimoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori |
| FAMILY NAME | Morimoto |
| SIGNATURE | MORIMOTO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0933-5934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom
This conversational essay brings together Lori Morimoto, Haerin Shin, and Sangita Shresthova in an exploration of inauthenticity, cultural liminality, and the generative tensions of transcultural fandom. Moving across personal narratives and scholarly reflection, this dialogue situates fandom as a contact zone shaped by asymmetrical power relations, affective attachments, and performative negotiations of identity. Drawing on the framework of the …
Roundtable: The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction
Fanfiction as a cultural practice has rapidly evolved in recent years, from a community-based form of social interaction to a globally recognised form of narrative world-building [...]
Alternative pedagogies at Fan Studies Network North America 2020
Overview of Multimedia section in TWC No. 35, "Fan Studies Pedagogies" (March 2021)
Transcultural fan studies in practice: A conversation
At the end of 2018, a group of fan scholars led by Lori Morimoto journeyed to Japan for a fan studies field trip. The purpose was multifaceted: to speak at a symposium on transcultural popular culture; to bring together fans and fandom studies from both sides of the Pacific; and to augment their classrooms with practical experience. Eight participants share their experiences and reflect on what it means to be a transcultural fan scholar at the da…
(Trans)Cultural Legibility and Online Yuri!!! on Ice Fandom
Ontological Security and the Politics of Transcultural Fandom
Research of transcultural fandoms historically has centered on the question of whether or not cross-cultural media consumption and fan interaction have a material effect on how fans of one place or culture understand that of another. This chapter contends that we might be better served by asking instead what happens when fans from one culture and media from another mix; when fan cultures commingle with production culture; when fan and social subj…
Reimagining the Imagined Community: Online Media Fandoms in the Age of Global Convergence
The ‘Totoro Meme’ and the politics of transfandom pleasure
This article is an exploration of the ‘Totoro meme’ as a site of affective, transfandom pleasure. In the Totoro meme, Japanese and non-Japanese fans alike appropriate the now-iconic image of Satsuki, Mei and an umbrella-toting Totoro at a bus stop from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 film, Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), to their own fannish ends, creating fan art that inserts favourite characters from other media into the scene in ways that often h…
Transnational media fan studies
This chapter discusses the international markets such as mainland China are something of a golden ring for Anglo-American media industries, targeted through affective appeals to those fans as much as those of Western fandom. It focuses on incorporating research of transnational fandoms in people own English language scholarship. Historically, border-crossing fandoms have been conceptualized primarily through a transnational lens. Today, research …
Trans-cult-ural fandom: Desire, technology and the transformation of fan subjectivities in the Japanese female fandom of Hong Kong stars
This essay examines the ways in which affective desire and new media technologies were mobilized by Japanese female fans of Hong Kong films and stars to produce a fan subjectivity that was at once cult and transcultural. The origins of this fandom, which flourished from around 1985 through the 1990s, lay in structural affinities of the Japanese and Hong Kong entertainment industries of the 1980s, as well as the ways in which popular stars of both…
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom
This conversational essay brings together Lori Morimoto, Haerin Shin, and Sangita Shresthova in an exploration of inauthenticity, cultural liminality, and the generative tensions of transcultural fandom. Moving across personal narratives and scholarly reflection, this dialogue situates fandom as a contact zone shaped by asymmetrical power relations, affective attachments, and performative negotiations of identity. Drawing on the framework of the …
Trans-cult-ural fandom: Desire, technology and the transformation of fan subjectivities in the Japanese female fandom of Hong Kong stars
This essay examines the ways in which affective desire and new media technologies were mobilized by Japanese female fans of Hong Kong films and stars to produce a fan subjectivity that was at once cult and transcultural. The origins of this fandom, which flourished from around 1985 through the 1990s, lay in structural affinities of the Japanese and Hong Kong entertainment industries of the 1980s, as well as the ways in which popular stars of both…
Transnational media fan studies
This chapter discusses the international markets such as mainland China are something of a golden ring for Anglo-American media industries, targeted through affective appeals to those fans as much as those of Western fandom. It focuses on incorporating research of transnational fandoms in people own English language scholarship. Historically, border-crossing fandoms have been conceptualized primarily through a transnational lens. Today, research …
Ontological Security and the Politics of Transcultural Fandom
Research of transcultural fandoms historically has centered on the question of whether or not cross-cultural media consumption and fan interaction have a material effect on how fans of one place or culture understand that of another. This chapter contends that we might be better served by asking instead what happens when fans from one culture and media from another mix; when fan cultures commingle with production culture; when fan and social subj…
Reimagining the Imagined Community: Online Media Fandoms in the Age of Global Convergence
The ‘Totoro Meme’ and the politics of transfandom pleasure
This article is an exploration of the ‘Totoro meme’ as a site of affective, transfandom pleasure. In the Totoro meme, Japanese and non-Japanese fans alike appropriate the now-iconic image of Satsuki, Mei and an umbrella-toting Totoro at a bus stop from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 film, Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro), to their own fannish ends, creating fan art that inserts favourite characters from other media into the scene in ways that often h…
(Trans)Cultural Legibility and Online Yuri!!! on Ice Fandom
Alternative pedagogies at Fan Studies Network North America 2020
Overview of Multimedia section in TWC No. 35, "Fan Studies Pedagogies" (March 2021)
Transcultural fan studies in practice: A conversation
At the end of 2018, a group of fan scholars led by Lori Morimoto journeyed to Japan for a fan studies field trip. The purpose was multifaceted: to speak at a symposium on transcultural popular culture; to bring together fans and fandom studies from both sides of the Pacific; and to augment their classrooms with practical experience. Eight participants share their experiences and reflect on what it means to be a transcultural fan scholar at the da…
Roundtable: The Past, Present and Future of Fan Fiction
Fanfiction as a cultural practice has rapidly evolved in recent years, from a community-based form of social interaction to a globally recognised form of narrative world-building [...]
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom
This conversational essay brings together Lori Morimoto, Haerin Shin, and Sangita Shresthova in an exploration of inauthenticity, cultural liminality, and the generative tensions of transcultural fandom. Moving across personal narratives and scholarly reflection, this dialogue situates fandom as a contact zone shaped by asymmetrical power relations, affective attachments, and performative negotiations of identity. Drawing on the framework of the …
Sociology (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (7 works) · Fandom (7 works) · History (6 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works)