Fanvids, or vids, are short videos created in media fandom. Made from television and film sources, they are neither television episodes nor films; they resemble music videos but are non-commercial fanworks that construct creative and critical analyses of existing media. The creators of fanvids-called vidders-are predominantly women, whose vids prompt questions about media historiography and pleasures taken from screen media. Vids remake narratives for an attentive fan audience, who watch with a deep knowledge of the source text(s), or an interest in the vid form itself. Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use draws on four decades of vids, produced on videotape and digitally, to argue that the vid form's creation and reception reveals a mode of engaged spectatorship that counters academic histories of media audiences and technologies. Vids offer an answer to the prevalent questions: What happens to television after it's been aired? How and by whom is it used and shared? Is it still television?
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Brief Introduction to Media Fandom and a History of Vids
- Structure and Aims
- Fannish Genres and the Vid
- Conclusion
- 1 Critical Contexts: Television Studies, Fandom Studies, and the Vid
- Scholarly Views of Vids and Vidding
- Gender, ‘Quality’ Television, and Digital Technology
- Televisual Flow, Segmentation, and Technologies of Control
- 2 Approach: How to Study a Vid
- Corpus Selection
- Canon Formation in a Marginal Practice
- How to Study a Vid
- Conclusion
- 3 Proximate Forms and Sites of Encounter: Music Video and Experimental Tradition
- Music Video
- Found Footage, Collage, and the Experimental Tradition
- Vids in Gallery Spaces: Cut Up and MashUp
- Distributing, Exhibiting, and Curating Vids
- Titanium and Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman – Same Source, Different Conclusion
- Conclusion
- 4 Textures of Fascination: Archives, Vids, and Vernacular Historiography
- Collection and Archive
- Creating a Path Through Star Trek
- Looking Archival
- Vids from the Archive
- The Archival Aesthetic of Vids
- Conclusion
- 5 Critical Spectatorship and Spectacle: Multifandom Vids
- Multifandom Vids
- Genre Pleasures
- Erotic and Bodily Spectacle
- Pleasures of Transmedia Consumption
- Fascinating People
- Conclusion
- 6 Adapting Starbuck: Dualbunny’s Battlestar Galactica Trilogy
- Overview of Battlestar Galactica
- God Is A DJ (2006)
- Popular Music and Television
- Cuz I Can (2007)
- I’m Not Dead (2009)
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Vids as Vids and the Afterlife of Television
- Thinking About Music
- Future Work
- Final Thoughts
- References
- Fanvids Cited
- Other Audio-Visual Works Cited
- Songs Cited
- Index
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