Overview

Vidding is a well-established remix practice where fans edit an existing film, music video, TV show, or other performance and set it to music of their choosing. Vids emerged forty years ago as a complicated technological feat involving capturing footage from TV with a VCR and syncing with music—and their makers and consumers were almost exclusively women, many of them queer women. The technological challenges of doing this kind of work in the 1970s and 1980s when vidding began gave rise to a rich culture of collective work, as well as conventions of creators who gathered to share new work and new techniques. While the rise of personal digital technology eventually democratized the tools vidders use, the collective aspect of the culture grew even stronger with the advent of YouTube, Vimeo, and other channels for sharing work. Vidding: A History emphasizes vidding as a critical, feminist form of fan practice. Working outward from interviews, VHS liner notes, convention programs, and mailing list archives, Coppa offers a rich history of vidding communities as they evolved from the 1970s through to the present. Built with the classroom in mind, the open-access electronic version of this book includes over one-hundred vids and an appendix that includes additional close readings of vids.

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Author:   Francesca Coppa
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780472038527

ISBN 10:   0472038524
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   23 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Hosted Vids A Note on Formatting Acknowledgments Introduction: Vidding and the Rise of Remix Culture Chapter 1. What Is Vidding? Vid Watching 101 Chapter 2. Early Vidding and Its Precursors Chapter 3. VCR Vidding and the Vidding Collectives (1980–1991) Chapter 4. Conventions, Computers, and Collective Action (1991–2007) Chapter 5. Re/evolutions: Vidding Culture(s) Online Notes Index The extended edition also includes the following appendix material: 1. Spotlight on: MARCHIN’ ON, by Hanna 2. Spotlight on: SUPREMACY, by rhoboat 3. Spotlight on: RADIOACTIVE, by Counteragent 4. Spotlight on: DANTE'S PRAYER, by Killa 5. Spotlight on: MARVEL, by lim 6. Spotlight on: SCOOBY ROAD, by Luminosity 7. Spotlight on: Character Vids 8. Spotlight on: A FANNISH TAXONOMY OF HOTNESS (HOT HOT HOT), by the Clucking Belles 9. Spotlight on: Big Emotion 10. Spotlight on: Comedy Shorts 11. Spotlight on: Dark Shadows Vidding 12. Spotlight on: The California Crew 13. Spotlight on: Mary Van Deusen and Her Descendants 14. Spotlight on: The San Francisco School 15. Spotlight on: Phallic Critique 16. Spotlight on: VOGUE, by Luminosity 17. Spotlight on: WALKING ON THE GROUND, by Seah & Margie 18. Spotlight on: PREVIOUSLY (VividCon 2010 intro vid), by Lumiosity and Melina 19. Spotlight on: CLOSER, by T. Jonesy and Killa 20. Spotlight on: The OTW’s Test Suite of Fair Use Vids 21. Spotlight on: Vidding Characters of Color 22. Spotlight on: Vids about Vidding 23. Spotlight on: Vids in the Classroom

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"""This is a culmination of decades of research with, on, through, and about vids, vidders, and vidding, and it does what it sets out to do. As anyone who has read Coppa's writing before knows, she is dedicated to highlighting the vital contributions of women to fandom and vidding in particular, and this continued dedication is another strength of the book."" --Transformative Works and Cultures--Sebastian F.K. Svegaard ""Transformative Works and Cultures"""

""This is a culmination of decades of research with, on, through, and about vids, vidders, and vidding, and it does what it sets out to do. As anyone who has read Coppa's writing before knows, she is dedicated to highlighting the vital contributions of women to fandom and vidding in particular, and this continued dedication is another strength of the book."" --Transformative Works and Cultures -- Sebastian F.K. Svegaard * Transformative Works and Cultures *

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Francesca Coppa is Professor of English and Film Studies at Muhlenberg College, where she teaches courses in dramatic literature and film studies. A founding member of the Organization for Transformative Works and an architect of the Archive of Our Own, she is the editor of The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age (2017).

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