Fanvids, or vids, are short videos created in media fandom. Made from television and film sources, they are neither television episodes nor films; they resemble music videos but are non-commercial fanworks that construct creative and critical analyses of existing media. The creators of fanvids-called vidders-are predominantly women, whose vids prompt questions about media historiography and pleasures taken from screen media. Vids remake narratives for an attentive fan audience, who watch with a deep knowledge of the source text(s), or an interest in the vid form itself. Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use draws on four decades of vids, produced on videotape and digitally, to argue that the vid form's creation and reception reveals a mode of engaged spectatorship that counters academic histories of media audiences and technologies. Vids offer an answer to the prevalent questions: What happens to television after it's been aired? How and by whom is it used and shared? Is it still television?
By:
E. Charlotte Stevens
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781041179153
ISBN 10: 1041179154
Series: Transmedia
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Introduction, 1. Critical Contexts: Television Studies, Fandom Studies, and the Vid, 2. Approach: How to Study a Vid, 3. Proximate Forms and Sites of Encounter: Music Video and Experimental Tradition, 4. Textures of Fascination: Archives, Vids, and Vernacular Historiography, 5. Critical Spectatorship and Spectacle: Multifandom Vids, 6. Adapting Kara Thrace: Dualbunny's Battlestar Galactica Trilogy, Conclusion, References, Index
E. Charlotte Stevens is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University.
