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A.V.A.T.A.R.
 (Anglos 
Valiantly 
Aiding 
Tragic 
Awe-inspiring
 Races)

By jonathan | Published: April 25, 2013

A.V.A.T.A.R. is biting remixed critique of Hollywood’s repeated use of the Might Whitey trope in which white heroes save oppressed and exotified people of color. Craig Saddlemire also created a highly critical mashup of Zack Snyder’s blockbuster film 300 which we have posted about before. He writes: A.V.A.T.A.R.
 (Anglos 
Valiantly 
Aiding 
Tragic 
Awe-inspiring
 Races) is 
a 
fast‐paced 
media 
mashup 
that 
highlights [...]

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What is Vidding? A Video Overview by Here’s Luck

By jonathan | Published: March 12, 2012

Vidder Here’s Luck gives a fantastic overview of this transformative remix video practice. She also talks about some of the history, technology and fair use challenges inherent in vid making. If you are unfamiliar with vidding as a remix video genre then this clip is a must watch! You can see vids created by Here’s Luck via her website. Check out Fanlore.org for [...]

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The Pale Blue Dot Remixed

By jonathan | Published: November 22, 2011

Remix artist Torrey Meeks uses a split-screen technique to combine footage from the Tunisian and Egyptian pro-democracy revolutions with time laps video set to Carl Sagan’s voice reading a famous passage from his 1994 book Earth – The Pale Blue Dot.  The resulting powerful mashup adds a moving new layer of context to Sagan’s words [...]

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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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Homophobic Friends

By jonathan | Published: July 11, 2011

This remix video is online again after being deleted by Vimeo. See below for details. The show Friends was a mainstay of popular American television for a decade and like most sitcoms it relied heavily on heteronormative or homophobic comedy situations and throwaway gags. During its ten years on the air, between 1994 and 2004, [...]

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Mad Men Supercut: Ugly Betty

By elisa | Published: June 7, 2011

In this Mad Men Supercut created for NY Magazine, Betty Draper is pissed and she’s pretty sure she knows why. The TV series takes place in the early 60′s and the Feminine Mystique is in full swing. To cope with being an unhappy mother and a trapped spouse, Betty drinks, smokes and yells at her [...]

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Disney Princess Sucker Punch

By jonathan | Published: April 7, 2011

What do you get when you mix Zack Snyder’s horribly, horribly, sexist movie Sucker Punch with the horribly sexist Disney princesses from a half dozen animated movies? Well, intentional or not, you get a riveting story of female liberation! This amazing trailer mash-up by Breanne Brennan works on several levels. First it serves as a [...]

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The Real James Bond

By elisa | Published: April 4, 2011

Veovisjohn created this remix highlighting the less-attractive libertine image of the James Bond brand of masculinity. By isolating (and occasionally repeating) the images of glorified aggression, objectification and, as the artist puts it, “womanizing”, the remix creates a rarely acknowledged but more accurate portrayal of Bond’s misogynistic masculinity. The original upload of The Real James [...]

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Remixing Muammar Gaddafi

By jonathan | Published: March 18, 2011

As the Libyan people rise up against their dictator, all over the world artists and video makers are showing support for the rebel’s cause by creating internet memes to relentlessly make fun of the tyrant. Below are a few of the best remix videos so far. First up Johan Söderberg brings back his famous “Read [...]

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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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