ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to contribute to the study of film sets, props, and costumes, an area to which film studies has given valuable, yet limited, attention. It also aims to proffer key ways in which the film-production objects can function to broker relationships between movie productions and fan experiences. The residue left by props, costumes, and sets may feed social and historical needs as scholars have been persistently pointing out. For cult fans, there is, instead, more than one bracketed period of play: creative play of the viewing period is one arena for absorption and meaning creation, but potentially viewers explore other levels of play that encompass the emotional residue and its outlets. The fan outlets and output take on several forms of play, the chapter examines two broad categories that are consumptive and productive: the consumption of related fetish objects or the prolific production of such objects.
