Remixing Pop Culture:FAN VIDDING

Alexis Lothian &Julie Levin RussoMarch 25, 2010

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nt) Popular video mashups on YouTube include fake trailers, parodies, & music videos.

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) The first “vid”: slideshow of recovered film stills set to music, presented at fan cons.

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(20

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s) A screenshot from “Walking on the Ground” by flummery shows Killa making a vid.

Why make fan videos?

pleasure

community

interpretation

gender

politics?

“Clo

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nesy

Gender &

Sexuality

“Walkin

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Pro

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rivacy

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The Enemy Within by CVM (Battlestar Galactica)

I'm Your Man by Charmax (various)

Wouldn't It Be Nice? by Laura Shapiro (various)

The Long Spear by JMTorres, Niqaeli, et al (Star Trek)

Closer by TJonesy & Killa (Star Trek)

White and Nerdy by Talitha78 (Psych)

Legend of a Cowgirl by Shati (Firefly)

How Much Is That Geisha in the Window by anon (Firefly)

The Fear by HazelK (Summer Glau: various)

Piece of Me by Obsessive24 (Britney Spears)