Finding Online Resources for Digital Remix Culture
- The Audiovisual Essay: How-To Video EssaysHelpful guide for how to create an video essay by Greer Fyfe and Miriam Ross
- Eastman Museum: Digitized FilmsA collection of digitized films from the George Eastman Museum
- Tribesourcing Southwest Film ProjectBased on the collection of nearly 500 films in the American Indian Film Gallery housed at the University of Arizona, this project tribesources mid-20th century educational and sponsored films about Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest by recording Native narrations and contextual information for film content from the Native communities they represent. The films contain valuable historical visual imagery, but the original narrations are often inaccurate and culturally uninformed. Tribesourcing places historical materials with the peoples they represent in order to tell the untold or suppressed story. As we have conceived it, tribesourcing is guided by the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (2006).
- The Rhode Island Historical Society Archive Remix Film FestivalWe gave Creators 300 minutes of footage from the RIHS collections – they gave us back remixed short films.
- University of East Anglia Mashup Filmmaking CompetitionEAFA’s annual Mash-up Filmmaking Competition invites filmmakers to make a short film choosing from a selection of archive footage. Each year brings a new theme, and a new competition package of archive clips curated by EAFA.
Books on Digital Remix Culture
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse by
In contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends, raising questions regarding the ethics of such appropriations, particularly when the recording depicts actual people and events. Every reuse of a preexisting recording is, on some level, a misuse in that it was not intended or at least anticipated by the original maker, but not all misuses are necessarily unethical. In fact, there are many instances of productive misuse that seem justified. At the same time, there are other instances in which the misuse shades into abuse. Documentary scholars have long engaged with the question of the ethical responsibility of documentary makers in relation to their subjects. But what happens when this responsibility is set at a remove, when the recording already exists for the taking and repurposing? Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys a range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage and attempts to theorize their ethical implications.
ISBN: 9780813599267Publication Date: 2020-11-30
Remix Theory: the Aesthetics of Sampling by
Acknowledgements. - Preface. - Introduction: Remix and Noise. - Remix(ing) Sampling. - Remix(ing) Music. - Remix(ing) Theory. - Remix(ing) Art. - Conclusion: Noise and Remix. - Index.
ISBN: 9783990435007Publication Date: 2014-11-04
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies by
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. As an organic international movement, remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s, and has since grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing numerous forms of media. The act of recombining pre-existing material brings up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism. This book approaches remix studies from various angles, including sections on history, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and practice, and presents theoretical chapters alongside case studies of remix projects. The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners, as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom.
ISBN: 9781134748747Publication Date: 2014-11-27
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture by
The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott in which Jenkins reflects upon changes in the field since the original release of Textual Poachers. A study guide by Louisa Stein helps provides instructors with suggestions for the way Textual Poachers can be used in the contemporary classroom, and study questions encourage students to consider fan cultures in relation to consumer capitalism, genre, gender, sexuality, and more.
ISBN: 9780203114339Publication Date: 2012-12-07
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