Full Description
This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres.
Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have assembled an edited collection that showcases the aesthetic diversity and transcultural dynamics at play in fan video as a widespread form. The collection explores the relationships between fan video as a set of DIY subcultural authorship forms and the broader evolving popular cultures of digital media, looking at how fan video structures and aesthetics influence other popular and commercial forms of digital video. In order to do so, it examines a wide range of fan video genres and practices, including vidding, reaction videos, self-insert TikToks, ASMR videos, Let's Play videos, streams, Bilibili videos, gif loops, fan films, crack videos, animatics, collection videos, deepfakes, fake trailers, and fan video essays, among others. It features chapters by a range of scholars working in the intersecting fields of digital media studies, fan studies, media studies, cultural studies, audience studies, video game studies, transcultural studies, and videographic studies.
A field-defining collection, this Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of digital media studies, fan studies, media studies, cultural studies, videographic studies, and beyond.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART 1 Forms and Platforms
1 Fandom and the Interrogative Gaze
Francesca Coppa
2 Reclaiming the Wizarding World: Self-Insert Fanvids, TikTok, and the Reimagining of Representation in Fandom
Effie Sapuridis
3 The Danmu Interface-Supported Translational Remix on Bilibili
Dingkun Wang and Jiahua Bu
4 Everything Everywhere All Xuanni: Chinese Fan Vids, Music, Emotions and Self-Orientalism
Yifei Yang
5 TV Series Fanvids on TikTok
Claire Cornillon
6 Fan Video of Attractions: From Loop to Video Essay
Louisa Ellen Stein
PART 2 Evolving Genres
7 (Re)Making Raiders of the Lost Ark: Affirmation, Transformation, and Identity in the Fan Remake Film
Emma Lynn
8 Remixing Queer Pleasure in Riverdale's Fan Crack Videos
Victoria Serafini
9 To Boldly Critique: Participatory Fan Practices in the Online Video Essay
Tara Coughlin
10 Ambiences, ASMR Roleplays, and Reality Shifting: Inhabiting Fictional Worlds via Fan Videos
Joyce Cimper
11 The Metamodernism of Minecraft Picture Music Videos
Samantha Close
12 (Voiceover) Imagine A World...: Fan Animatics for TTRPG Shows
Maria K. Alberto and Yvonne Gonzales
PART 3 Community and Authorship
13 Common, Purple, and Red Mushrooms: Performative Authorship and Collective Agency in the Stardew Valley Community
Megan Bédard and Roxanne Chartrand
14 A Truth Universally Remixed: How YouTube and TikTok Users Adapt Jane Austen's World for Twenty-First Century Audiences
Maria Juko
15 Constructing a Rogue Archive on Bilibili: A Case Study of Leslie Cheung's Fan-Made Videos
Ning Zhang
16 Disidentifications on the Death Star: Queer of Color Cosplay on TikTok
Elissa Domingo Badique
17 Vidding Italian Style: Collabs, Fan Edits, and the Fannish Bilingualism of the Italian Fan Video Community
Lucia Tralli
18 Digital Echoes of Indian Dance through Fan Videos of Japanese Women Influencers
Shweta Arora
19 Reinventing Desi Masculinity: Sigma Male Videos on YouTube
Pratiksha Thangam Menon
PART 4 Expanding Contexts
20 Teaching with Fan Video
E. Charlotte Stevens and Nick Webber
21 The Distributed Creative Process: Narremes, Obstacles, and Twitch Plays Pokémon
John Kirwan
22 r/Roastme as a Collective Community Storytelling: Memetics and Fanvid Production
Gabriele Forte
23 Spores Productions: From Cosplay to Fan Filmmaking
José Blázquez and Giulio Olesen
24 The Intersection of Fan Video and K-pop Photocard Collecting
Kaitlyn Lane
25 Fair Use and Bullsh*t: Vidders and Copyright
Sebastian F. K. Svegaard
26 Deepfake Fantasies: Fan Practices in Deepfake Creator Communities
Amber Davisson
27 From Amateur Filmmaker to Content Producer: Emerging Narrative Strategies on Social Media
Gustavo Soranz
28 Cinephilia and Digital Authorship: Audiovisual Scrapbooks, Reaction Videos, and Fake AI-Trailers
Philipp Dominik Keidl
Index
