Fanvids

Fanvids

Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use

  • Autor: Stevens, E. Charlotte
  • Editor: Amsterdam University Press
  • Col·lecció: Transmedia
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048537105
  • Lloc de publicació:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Any de publicació digital: 2020
  • Mes: Agost
  • Pàgines: 294
  • Idioma: Anglés
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