Tag Archives: sexism

Corporate Advertising Wants Your Soul

By jonathan | Published: February 28, 2012

In this remix, reminiscent of some older EBN videos, MrMondialisation borrows fragments from hundreds of corporate TV commercials to illustrate the song “We want your soul” by English DJ Adam Freeland. It’s noteworthy that MrMondialisation also manages to avoid the “blame the people” trope (which some political mashup artists fall into) by having the perspective of the remix be that of a manipulative corporate propaganda machine repeating the montra [...]

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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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Talking Back to Battlestar Galactica – Tandemonium

By anita | Published: November 24, 2010

*Spoiler Warning for Battlestar Galactica (as if you haven’t watched the whole thing already) and elements of extreme violence. One thing I love about remix is its ability to talk back to the media.  Remixers can re-purpose footage from popular culture to tell a different story, to do an identity correction or to tell the [...]

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The Price is Creepy – Bob Barker Supercut

By jonathan | Published: November 8, 2010

In this remix, Rich Juzwiak illuminates the sexist behavior of famous TV game show host Bob Barker form The Price is Right. He carefully collected and placed back-to back a series of short clips of Barker making patronizing and downright creepy comments to female contestants. Rich’s use of 1970’s era game show episodes demonstrates the [...]

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Stay Awake – Don’t Get Pregnant on TV

By anita | Published: August 23, 2010

Between the ominous acapella version of the classic Mary Poppins song performed by Suzanne Vega and the skin crawling subject matter in this vid, Laura Shapiro has expertly remixed and brought to light a reoccurring problem in women’s science fiction representations. All to often female characters in science fiction and fantasy television narratives are forcibly [...]

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Buffy vs Edward Nominated for a Webby Award

By jonathan | Published: April 20, 2010

It has been about 9 months since I first posted my Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed video online and in that time it has been seen nearly 3 million times, been voluntarily translated into 30 languages, sparked discussion threads on countless website and it’s even being used as a teaching tool in classrooms across the [...]

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Too Many Dicks (Video Games)

By elisa | Published: March 26, 2010

This remix by Anita Sarkeesian of FeministFrequency.com appropriates the sexist song “Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor” by Flight of the Conchords to critique the male domination, hyper masculinity and glorification of violence in popular video games. The video uses source material from 39 different games and was inspired by Sloane’s “Star Trek Dance [...]

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The Reel Grrls Remix Gendered Toy Ads

By jonathan | Published: March 21, 2010

Over the past few years I have been developing a series of fun workshops that use simple video remixing projects as an engaging way to teach critical media literacy to youth. Back in December I taught one of these workshops with the Reel Grrls – a Seattle based non-profit that aims to empower girls to [...]

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