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This chapter highlights the wider contributions of the Hobbit Audience Project and relates its major findings to wider processes shaping the conceptualisation and realisation of blockbuster franchise adaptations. The key theoretical insights that can be gleaned from this research are highlighted, along with their relevance to studying receptions of blockbuster adaptations more broadly. The chapter also outlines the project’s wider significance and contribution to audience and reception studies and reflects on the value of the pioneering longitudinal methodological approach used, its strengths and limitations and its possible applications for future research on audiences and media engagement.
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Michelle, C., Davis, C.H., Hardy, A.L., Hight, C. (2017). Conclusion and Methodological Reflections on a Unique Project. In: Fans, Blockbusterisation, and the Transformation of Cinematic Desire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59616-1_10
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