ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 presents the reader with the extensive autoethnography consumer narrative of the author’s own personal fan relationship with the film actress Jena Malone and how it has developed, evolved and manifested itself in my everyday life over a period of nearly two years. By contextualising the collected retrospective and contemporaneous autoethnographic data, the consumer narrative stays faithful to the consumer’s original words, expressions and records in the diaries and keeps the lived fan experiences alive. The purpose of this chapter and, especially, the presented consumer narrative as genuine case study of real-life celebrity fandom is to take the reader on a narrative journey into the real life of a fan.
