Category Archives: educational

Primetime Terror – TV Dramas and the War on Terror

By jonathan | Published: October 1, 2011

Remix maker Joe Sabia has teamed up with the Norman Lear Center and the ACLU to illustrate their “Prime Time Terror” study in fair use video mashup form. You might remember Joe from his Rent is Too Damn High + Up remix posted last year. This new remix dynamically highlights the study’s findings by borrowing [...]

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A Brief History of Product Placement in the Movies

By anita | Published: March 14, 2011

Most of us might remember the iconic moment in Steven Spielberg’s movie ET when the lovable alien first tried Reese’s Pieces but did you know Hershey’s paid a million dollars to have that written into the movie’s script? And what about all those other pesky way-too-obvious product placements we see in nearly every Hollywood blockbuster [...]

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Racism in Disney Mashup

By jonathan | Published: July 5, 2008

A political mash-up created by cutting together clips from various well known Disney animated features to illustrate the deeply embedded racism in those films. This is an example of fair use remix in a more educational video style. ####

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Masculinity in Disney Films

By jonathan | Published: March 26, 2008

An enlightening mash-up video project on the portrayal of masculinity in Disney animated movies by Sanjay Newton that appropriates footage from those films to illustrate narrated audio criticisms on the issue. This mash-up would fall into the category of educational remix so it has a very different feel than many of the other videos posted [...]

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