Fan Video Bibliographies

This bibliography was produced on August 17, 2011 from a shared bibliography maintained by OTW at Zotero and will be updated roughly twice a year.

If you know of references that are not on this list, please contact us. We welcome scholarly references and articles about any form of fan video, including but not limited to: fan vids, anime music videos, fan trailers, machinima, fan filmmaking, and multimedia fan art.


Blankinship, E., B. Smith, H. Holtzman, and W. Bender. “Closed caption, open source.” BT Technology Journal 22, no. 4 (2004): 151–159.

Boulaire, Christele, and Guillaume Hervet. “Creativity chains and playing in the crossfire on the video-sharing site YouTube.” Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing 4, no. 2 (2010): 111-141.

Bradford, D., and J. Hull. “Another Blinding Documentary on Channel 4?” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 125-133.

Bradshaw, Julia. “Borrowed and reborn.” Entrepreneur.com, August 2009. http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/205863249.html.

Burgess, Jean, and Joshua Green. YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. Polity, 2009.

Busse, Kristina. “Affective Aesthetics.” The Symposium Blog, November 23, 2010. http://symposium.transformativeworks.org/2010/11/affective-aesthetics/.

———. “Supernatural ‘At the Movies’: Context, canon, and genre in AU vids.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, November 16, 2009. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/11/16/supernatural-movi....

———. “‘Us’ - A multivid by Lim.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, February 1, 2008. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2008/02/01/us-a-multivid-by-lim.

———. “vidding intro via imeem.” ephemeral traces, June 28, 2007. http://kbusse.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/vidding-intro-via-imeem/.

Carter, K. R, and C. Penley. “Freestyle, Flow, and Fanculture: Mapping the Technical Mediation of Fan Communities” (N.d.).

Coppa, Francesca. “A fannish taxonomy of hotness.” Cinema Journal 48, no. 4 (2009): 107-113.

———. “Celebrating Kandy Fong: Founder of fannish music video.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, November 19, 2007. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2007/11/19/celebrating-kandy....

———. “DIY Media 2010: Fan Vids (Part Four).” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, December 1, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/12/diy_media_2010_fan_vids_part_f.html.

———. “DIY Media 2010: Fan Vids (Part One).” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, November 24, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/11/diy_media_2010_fan_vids.html.

———. “DIY Media 2010: Fan Vids (Part Three).” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, November 29, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/11/diy_media_2010_fan_vids_part_t_1.html.

———. “DIY Media 2010: Fan Vids (Part Two).” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, November 26, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/11/diy_media_2010_fan_vids_part_t.html.

———. “‘Mission Report’: The medium is the message.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, November 16, 2009. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/11/16/mission-report-me....

———. MIT TechTV – OTW Fanvidding series: What is Vidding?, n.d. http://techtv.mit.edu/tags/1189-library/videos/1246-otw-fanvidding-serie....

———. “‘Pressure’: A metavid by the California Crew.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, January 28, 2008. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2008/01/28/pressure-metavid-....

———. “Vidding.” In Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 313-315. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009.

———. “Women, ‘Star Trek,’ and the early development of fannish vidding.” Transformative Works and Cultures 1 (2008). http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/viewArticle/44.

Cornblatt, M. “Censorship as Criticism: Performance Art and Fair Use in Virtual Territory.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 74-79.

Crypto. “I have heard the mermaids singing. So far, though, no suckling pigs or stray dogs yet.” Dreamwidth Journal. Frameshift, n.d. http://crypto.dreamwidth.org/67495.html.

Cupitt, Cathy. “Nothing but Net: When cultures collide.” Transformative Works and Cultures 1 (2008). http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/viewArticle....

Dellario, F. R. “The Future of Machinima as a Professional Animation Resource and its Growth as Real-Time Animation in Virtual Worlds.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 89-92.

Falkenstein, J. “Machinima as a Viable Commercial Medium.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 86-88.

Fosk, K. “Machinima is Growing Up.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 25-30.

Freund, Katharina. “I’m glad we got burned, think of all the things we learned‘: Fandom conflict and context in Counteragent’s ’Still Alive.” Transformative Works and Cultures 4 (2010). http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/viewArticle....

Furman, Charlie. “Dueling with Censorship: Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series’ Pastiche of Dubbing”, n.d. http://angelingo.usc.edu/index.php/humanities/dueling-with-censorship-yu....

Gayeton, D. “Molotov Alva’s Further Adventures: A Conversation Which Could’ve Happened (But Never Did).” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 93-99.

Genealogy of Vidding with Francesca Coppa - “24/7 a DIY Video Summit”, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYdllH7jZxg&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

Hackleman, C. “Where Were You the Day Onyxia Died?” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 38-41.

Hancock, H. “Machinima: Limited, Ghettoized, and Spectacularly Promising.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 31-37.

Harwood, T. “Towards a Manifesto for Machinima.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 6-12.

Hill, Kathryn. “‘Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy’: An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music, and the Internet.” In Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet, 172 - 96. McFarland, 2009.

Hill, Logan. “Q&A With Ultimate Fan Luminosity - Online Videos 2007 -- New York Magazine”, n.d. http://nymag.com/movies/features/videos/40622/.

Horwatt, Eli. “A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing: Contemporary Found Footage Practice on the Internet.” Scope: an online journal of film and tv studies June, no. 17 (2010). http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=8.

Ito, Mizuko. “Machinima in a Fanvid Ecology.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (01 2011): 51-54.

Itō, Mizuko. “The rewards of non–commercial production: Distinctions and status in the anime music video scene.” First Monday 15, no. 5 (2010). http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticl....

Jenkins, Henry. “DIY Media 2010: Anime Music Videos (Part Three)”, December 17, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/12/diy_media_2010_anime_music_vid_2.html.

———. “DIY Media 2010: Anime Music Videos (Part One)”, December 13, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/12/diy_media_2010_anime_music_vid.html.

———. “DIY Media 2010: Anime Music Videos (Part Two)”, December 15, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/12/diy_media_2010_anime_music_vid_1.html.

———. “Fan Vidding: A Labor Of Love (Part One).” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, December 5, 2008. http://henryjenkins.org/2008/12/fanvidding.html.

———. “Fan Vidding: A Labor Of Love (Part Two).” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, December 8, 2008. http://henryjenkins.org/2008/12/in_many_ways_the_emergence.html.

———. “How to watch a fan-vid.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, September 18, 2006. http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/09/how_to_watch_a_fanvid.html.

———. “How YouTube Became OurTube.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, October 18, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/10/how_youtube_became_ourtube.html.

———. “‘Layers of meaning’: Fan music video and the poetrics of poaching.” In Textual Poachers. Routledge, 1992.

———. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. Studies in Culture and Communication. Routledge, 1992.

———. “Vidder Luminosity Profiled in New York Magazine.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, November 20, 2007. http://henryjenkins.org/2007/11/vidder_luminosity_profiled_in.html.

———. “Vidding Kung Fu Panda in China.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, March 10, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/03/vidding_kung_fu_panda_in_china.html.

———. “What the Chinese Are Making of Avatar.” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, March 12, 2010. http://henryjenkins.org/2010/03/avatar_and_chinese_fan_culture.html#comm....

———. “What’s Behind ‘The Glass’?” Confessions of an Aca-Fan, May 8, 2008. http://henryjenkins.org/2008/05/the_glass.html.

Jones, R. “Does Machinima Really Democratize?” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 59-65.

Joshua Diltz, J. “journal of visual culture: Digital Voices.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 55-58.

Karpovich, A. I. “Reframing Fan Videos.” In Music, sound and multimedia: from the live to the virtual, 17-28, 2007.

Kirschner, F. “Machinima’s Promise.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 19-24.

Kjono, Jacqueline. “A Day in the Life: Using the Music - A ‘Dead Zone’ vid by Shalott and Speranza.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, January 30, 2008. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2008/01/30/a-day-in-the-life....

Klink, Madeline LeNore. “Laugh out loud in real life : women’s humor and fan identity”, n.d. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59730.

Knobel, Michele, and Lankshear, Colin. “Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization.” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy; 52 (2008): 22-33.

Kraus, K. “‘A Counter-Friction to the Machine’: What Game Scholars, Librarians, and Archivists Can Learn from Machinima Makers about User Activism.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 100-112.

Kuhn, Virginia. “The YouTube Gaze: Permission to Create?” Enculturation 7 (2010). http://enculturation.gmu.edu/the-youtube-gaze.

Lamerichs, N. “It’s a small world after all: Metafictional fan videos on YouTube.” Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology 1, no. 1 (2008): 52-60.

LantisEscudo. “The History of the Org.” Forum. AnimeMusicVideos.org, December 10, 2008. http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=91946&....

Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin (Non-Classics), 2009.

Lipton, Jacqueline D. “Copyright’s Twilight Zone: Digital Copyright Lessons from the Vampire Blogosphere.” SSRN eLibrary (n.d.). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1574460##.

Lothian, Alexis. “Living in a den of thieves: Fan video and digital challenges to ownership.” Cinema Journal 48, no. 4 (2009): 130–136.

Lowood, H. “A ‘Different Technical Approach’? Introduction to the Special Issue on Machinima.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 3-5.

———. “Perfect Capture: Three Takes on Replay, Machinima and the History of Virtual Worlds.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 113-124.

Manovich, Lev. “The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass Cultural Production?” Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2 (January 1, 2009): 319-331.

McCracken, Allison. “‘A Trek for our time’: The continuing relevance and resonance of ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, March 19, 2007. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2007/03/19/a-trek-for-our-ti....

Methenitis, M. “Opportunity and Liability: The Two Sides of Machinima.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 80-85.

Micole. “Women’s Art and ‘Women’s Work’.” Ambling Along the Aqueduct, August 29, 2007. http://aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2007/08/womens-art-and-womens-work.html.

Middleton, Kim. “Alternate Universes on Video: Ficvid and the Future of Narrative.” In Writing and the Digital
Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric, 117-131. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

Milstein, Dana. “Case Study: Anime Music Videos.” In Music, Sound and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual, 29-47. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Mittell, Jason. “Understanding vidding.” Just TV, November 7, 2007. http://justtv.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/understanding-vidding/.

Monaghan, Whitney. “Identity scavengers: Queer girl fandom and ‘South of Nowhere’.” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 52, no. Summer (2010). http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/monaghanIndentityScav/text.html.

Ng, Eve. “Reading the Romance of Fan Cultural Production: Music Videos of a Television Lesbian Couple.” Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 6, no. 2 (2008): 103.

Nideffer, R. F. “Eight Questions (and Answers) about Machinima.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 66-73.

Nitsche, M. “A Look Back at Machinima’s Potential.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 13-18.

Pandey, Ashish. “Definitions of Vidder, Vidding, vid-making, Vid-fic, Vids.” In Dictionary of Fiction, 273. Gyan Books, 2005.

Penrod, Diane. “Writing and rhetoric for a ludic democracy: YouTube, fandom, and participatory pleasure.” In Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric, 141-151. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010.

Perez-Gomez, Miguel. “Fan-Made Vids: Una introducción al vidding, los song vids, el recut, los mash-ups, el fan edit y otros artefactos audiovisuales.” Text.Serial.Journal, 2009. http://fcom.us.es/revista-e/index.php/Admira/article/viewArticle/46.

Pitzer, Juli Stone. “Vids, Vlogs and Blogs: The Participatory Culture of Smallville's Digital Fan." In Lincoln Geraghty, ed. The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television Series, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011, pp. 109-128.

Pohnert, Vlad. “History of AMV.” Forum. AnimeMusicVideos.org, January 7, 2005. http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44607&....

Russo, J. L. “‘Battlestar Redactica’: Visual revision of narrative error.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, November 17, 2009. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/11/17/battlestar-redact....

———. “User-Penetrated Content: Fan Video in the Age of Convergence.” Cinema Journal 48, no. 4 (2009): 125–130.

Santo, Avi. “Make a fan vid for MTV and win cool prizes: Participatory pleasures and profits converge.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, May 11, 2005. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2007/05/11/make-a-fan-vid-fo....

Sarkeesian, Anita. “‘Remixing Pop Culture’ event videos.” Feminist Frequency: Conversations With Pop Culture, August 11, 2010. http://www.feministfrequency.com/2010/08/remixing-pop-culture-event-videos/.

Sexton, Jamie. Music, sound and multimedia:from the live to the virtual. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Shannon, Tashery. “Move Over, MTV! Here Come the Song Vids! Fan Music Videos.” Strange New Worlds, October 1993. http://web.archive.org/web/20080215174645/http://www.strangenewworlds.co....

Springall, Dana. “Popular music meets Japanese cartoons: A history of the evolution of anime music videos”. Birmingham, Ala.: Samford University, 2004.

starlady. “AMVs versus vids (Can o’ worms? Check! Can opener? Check! Let’s rock and roll!).” Blog, April 10, 2010. http://starlady.dreamwidth.org/308172.html.

Stasi, Mafalda. “‘So Damn Hot’: A ‘From Eroica with Love’ vid by Diana Williams.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, November 15, 2009. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/11/15/so-damn-hot-eroic....

Stein, L. E. “‘What you don’t know’:‘ Supernatural’ fan vids and millennial theology.” Transformative Works and Cultures 4 (2010).

Stein, Louisa. “‘Bricks’: A ‘Supernatural’ vid by Luminosity.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, January 31, 2008. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2008/01/31/bricks-a-supernat....

Stern, E. “Massively Multiplayer Machinima Mikusuto.” Journal of Visual Culture 10, no. 1 (April 2011): 42-50.

Stevens, E. C. “Chasing semiotic rabbits: The proliferation of secondary meaning in‘ Doctor Who’ fanvids”. YORK UNIVERSITY, 2011.

Thornton, N. “YouTube: transnational fandom and Mexican divas.” Transnational Cinemas 1, no. 1 (2010): 53–67.

Trombley, S. “Visions and Revisions: Fanvids and Fair Use.” Cardozo Arts & Ent. LJ 25 (2007): 647.

Turk, Tisha. “Metalepsis in Fan Vids and Fan Fiction.” In Metalepsis in Popular Culture. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.

———. “‘New Slang’: Happily ever after.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, November 20, 2009. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/11/19/new-slang-happily....

———. “‘Not Only Human’: An ‘X-Files’ vid by Killa and Laura Shapiro.” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project, January 29, 2008. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2008/01/29/not-only-human-x-....

———. “‘Your Own Imagination’: Vidding and Vidwatching as Collaborative Interpretation.” Film & Film Culture 5 (2010): 88-110.

Tushnet, Rebecca. “Creating in the Shadow of the Law: Media Fans and Intellectual Property.” In Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Copyright and related rights. Vol. One. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007.

———. “Hybrid Vigor: Mashups, Cyborgs, and Other Necessary Monsters.” Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works (January 25, 2010). http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/168.

———. “I Put You There: User-Generated Content and Anticircumvention.” Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 12, no. 4 (2010): 889.

———. “Payment in Credit: Copyright Law and Subcultural Creativity.” SSRN eLibrary (n.d.). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1010395.

Ulaby, Neda. “Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses : NPR.” All Things Considered. National Public Radio, February 25, 2009. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101154811.

Walker, Jesse. “Remixing Television: Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground.” Reason Magazine, 2008. http://reason.com/archives/2008/07/18/remixing-television.

White, Michele. The body and the screen: theories of Internet spectatorship. MIT Press, 2006.

Wikipedia. “Vidding.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, N.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidding.

Williams, Kathleeen. “Never Coming to a Theatre near You: Recut Film Trailers” 12, no. 2 (2009). http://www.journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view....

Young, Clive. Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera. Illustrated edition. Continuum, 2008.