Fanvids

Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use

E. Charlotte Stevens

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040789537
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Gender Studies

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?

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Critical Contexts: Television Studies, Fandom Studies, and the Vid
• 2 Approach: How to Study a Vid
• 3 Proximate Forms and Sites of Encounter: Music Video and Experimental Tradition
• 4 Textures of Fascination: Archives, Vids, and Vernacular Historiography
• 5 Critical Spectatorship and Spectacle: Multifandom Vids
• 6 Adapting Starbuck: Dualbunny's Battlestar Galactica Trilogy
• Conclusion
• References
• Index