Chapter 20 Further Reading

Foundational Academic Works

Busse, Kristina, and Karen Hellekson, eds. Fan Fiction Studies Reader. University of Iowa Press, 2006. Includes some of the earliest serious academic treatment of fan video as a creative form.

Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. Routledge, 1992. The foundational text of fan studies includes early attention to fan video production in the context of the participatory culture argument.

Penley, Constance. NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America. Verso, 1997. Examines fan creativity in the Star Trek community, including early video production.

Tushnet, Rebecca. "Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It." Yale Law Journal 114 (2004): 535. The foundational legal argument for fan vids as fair use.

Coppa, Francesca. "A Vidding Manifesto." In Transformative Works and Cultures 1 (2008). Available open access at the OTW. The most articulate inside-community argument for vidding as a distinct creative form.

Vidding History and Theory

Coppa, Francesca, and Julie Levin Russo. "Fan/Remix Video." Transformative Works and Cultures 9 (2012). A special issue dedicated to fan remix video, including vidding, AMVs, and fan films.

Kreisinger, Elisa. "Queer Video Remix and LGBTQ Online Communities." Transformative Works and Cultures 9 (2012). Analysis of how LGBTQ fan communities use vidding to create representation absent from mainstream media.

AMV Tradition

Behrenshausen, Bryan. "Toward a (Rave) Machinimatic Cinema: Spectatorship, Subjectivity, and Text in the World of Warcraft Music Video." Games and Culture 2.4 (2007). Adjacent work on game-based music video that illuminates AMV aesthetics.

Tushnet, Rebecca. "Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law." Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal 17 (1997): 651. Earlier work laying groundwork for her later arguments about transformative work.

Bridy, Annemarie. "Copyright's Digital Deputies: DMCA-Plus Enforcement by Internet Intermediaries." In Working within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property. Oxford, 2010. Analysis of how platform-level copyright enforcement works.

Content ID and Platform Policy

Trendacosta, Katharine, and Mitch Stoltz. "Unfiltered: How YouTube's Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Harm Cements Illegitimate Censorship." Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2020. Available free online. The most thorough investigation of Content ID's effects on legitimate creative work.

K-pop Fancam Culture

Jin, Dal Yong. New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media. University of Illinois Press, 2016. Context for understanding K-pop fan practices including fancam production.

Online Resources

Organization for Transformative Works (transformativeworks.org) — Publishes Transformative Works and Cultures, an open-access peer-reviewed journal that is the primary academic venue for fan studies, including fan video scholarship.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) — Extensive resources on Content ID, DMCA exemptions, and fan creator rights.

AO3 Fanvids (archiveofourown.org/fandoms/Vids) — Active archive of fan video work with community tagging, ratings, and comments.

AMV.org — The primary archive and community for AMV production; extensive review archives document the development of AMV aesthetic norms over two decades.

For Advanced Students

Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press, 2008. The broader argument about remix culture and copyright within which fan video sits.

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. Basic Books, 2004. Context for the platform control dynamics that shape fan video distribution.

De Kosnik, Abigail. Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom. MIT Press, 2016. Examines fan archiving practices, including vid archives, as a form of cultural preservation that exists outside institutional memory structures.