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viddingVidding: A History by Francesca Coppa
University of Michigan Press, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10069132
read online, download in epub or PDF
This free book deploys multimedia in its analysis of transformative vidding with both words and pictures: the open-access server hosts 137 fanvids.
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.
Edited to add: I'm stealing Jesse_the_k's post (thank you!) but I wanted to add that this comm is in the book as are many of the vidders who have historically posted here! It's free to read and will hopefully be a fun stroll down memory lane for many of you! I'm also posting excerpts from the book over on my Tumblr which is at: https://francescacoppa.tumblr.com. Hope you enjoy! <3
University of Michigan Press, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.10069132
read online, download in epub or PDF
This free book deploys multimedia in its analysis of transformative vidding with both words and pictures: the open-access server hosts 137 fanvids.
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.
Edited to add: I'm stealing Jesse_the_k's post (thank you!) but I wanted to add that this comm is in the book as are many of the vidders who have historically posted here! It's free to read and will hopefully be a fun stroll down memory lane for many of you! I'm also posting excerpts from the book over on my Tumblr which is at: https://francescacoppa.tumblr.com. Hope you enjoy! <3
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