Tag Archives: violence

Wouldn’t It Be Great if Everybody Had a Gun?

By jonathan | Published: April 26, 2013

As the gun regulation debate heats up again in the United States I though this 2006 Anime Music Video (AMV) by wundergeek would make an appropriate post. Her remix combines footage from the 1998 Space Western TV series Trigun with the song “Let There Be Guns” by musical comedy group The Arrogant Worms. The over-the-top animation mashed up with deeply satirical lyrics is designed to mock opponents to gun [...]

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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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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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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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Shepard Smith vs. Jack Nicholson on Torture

By jonathan | Published: March 29, 2011

Fox News Studio B host Shepard Smith has had more than his fair share of on-air outbursts over the years; some have been admirable while others have been borderline abusive. Shep is again a hot topic in the blogosphere this month for a discussion with Juan Williams where he refuses to take the Fox News [...]

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The French Democracy – Machinima

By elisa | Published: February 23, 2011

In 2005, a series of protests and “riots” erupted outside Paris in response to the electrocution of two North African boys during a police chase. Upset by how the mass media portrayed the incident, a 27 year old gamer named Alex Chan created a short video about the event from the prospective of immigrant youth [...]

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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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WikiLeaks Remix

By elisa | Published: November 5, 2010

This WikiLeaks remix uses gaming scenes from “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” and footage from mounted military aircraft cameras during the Gulf and Iraq wars to make a persuasive argument about the way in which war has been sold to our generation as an interactive game with little consequence. The soundtrack is an equal [...]

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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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