Fanvids : Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use PDF

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?