This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres.
Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have assembled an edited collection that showcases the aesthetic diversity and transcultural dynamics at play in fan video as a widespread form. The collection explores the relationships between fan video as a set of DIY subcultural authorship forms and the broader evolving popular cultures of digital media, looking at how fan video structures and aesthetics influence other popular and commercial forms of digital video. In order to do so, it examines a wide range of fan video genres and practices, including vidding, reaction videos, self-insert TikToks, ASMR videos, Let’s Play videos, streams, Bilibili videos, gif loops, fan films, crack videos, animatics, collection videos, deepfakes, fake trailers, and fan video essays, among others. It features chapters by a range of scholars working in the intersecting fields of digital media studies, fan studies, media studies, cultural studies, audience studies, video game studies, transcultural studies, and videographic studies.
A field-defining collection, this Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of digital media studies, fan studies, media studies, cultural studies, videographic studies, and beyond.
Edited by:
Louisa Ellen Stein,
Samantha Close
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.010kg
ISBN: 9781032717364
ISBN 10: 103271736X
Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Handbooks
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 31 October 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
List of Contributors 00 Introduction Part 1 Forms and Platforms 01 Fandom and the Interrogative Gaze Francesca Coppa 02 Reclaiming the Wizarding World: Self-Insert Fanvids, TikTok, and the Reimagining of Representation in Fandom Effie Sapuridis 03 The Danmu Interface–Supported Translational Remix on Bilibili Dingkun Wang and Jiahua Bu 04 Everything Everywhere All Xuanni: Chinese Fan Vids, Music, Emotions and Self-Orientalism Yifei Yang 05 TV Series Fanvids on TikTok Claire Cornillon 06 Fan Video of Attractions: From Loop to Video Essay Louisa Stein Part 2 Evolving Genres 07 (Re)Making Raiders of the Lost Ark: Affirmation, Transformation, and Identity in the Fan Remake Film Emma Lynn 08 Remixing Queer Pleasure in Riverdale’s Fan Crack Videos Victoria Serafini 09 To Boldly Critique: Participatory Fan Practices in the Online Video Essay Tara Coughlin 10 Ambiences, ASMR roleplays, reality shifting: inhabiting fictional worlds via fan videos Joyce Cimper 11 The Metamodernism of Minecraft Picture Music Videos Sam Close 12 (Voiceover) Imagine A World…: Fan Animatics for TTRPG Shows Maria Alberto and Yvonne Gonzales Part 3 Community and Authorship 13 Common, Purple, and Red Mushrooms: Performative Authorship and Collective Agency in the Stardew Valley Community Roxanne Chartrand and Megan Bedard 14 A Truth Universally Remixed: How YouTube and TikTok Users Adapt Jane Austen’s World for 21st Century Audiences Maria Juko 15 Constructing a Rogue Archive on Bilibili: A Case Study of Leslie Cheung’s Fan-Made Videos Ning Zhang 16 Decoding and Disidentification on the Death Star: Q/PoC Embodiments and Performances of Self on TikTok Elissa Badique 17 Vidding Italian Style : Collabs, Fan Edits, and the Fannish Bilingualism of the Italian Fan Video Community Lucia Tralli 18 Digital Echoes of Indian Dance through Fan Videos of Japanese Women Influencers Shweta Arora 19 Reinventing Desi Masculinity: Sigma Male Videos on YouTube Pratiksha Menon Part 4 Expanding Contexts 20 Teaching with Fan Video Charlotte Stevens and Nick Weber 21 The Distributed Creative Process: Narremes, Obstacles and Twitch Plays Pokémon John Kirwan 22 r/Roastme as a collective community storytelling: memetics and fanvid production Gabriel Forte 23 Spores Productions: from cosplay to fan filmmaking José Blazquez and Giulio Olesen 24 The Intersection of Fan Video and K-pop Photocard Collecting Kaitlyn Lane 25 Fair Use and Bullsh*t: Vidders and Copyright Sebastian Svegaard 26 Deepfake Fantasies: Fan Practices in Deepfake Creator Communities Amber Davisson 27 From Amateur Filmmaker to Content Producer: Emerging Narrative Strategies on Social Media Gustavo Soranz 28 Cinephilia and Digital Authorship: Audiovisual Scrapbooks, Reaction Videos, and Fake AI-Trailers Philipp Keidl Index
Louisa Ellen Stein is Associate Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. She is the author of Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age (2015) and co-editor of A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures (2020), Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom (2012), and Teen Television: Programming and Fandom (2008). Her work explores audience engagement in transmedia culture, with emphasis on cultural and digital contexts, gender, and generation. Samantha Close is Associate Professor of Media and Popular Culture at DePaul University, USA. She writes about fan video and creates scholarly video work that mixes fan video with videographic criticism. Her writing has appeared in edited volumes and academic journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, and the International Journal of Communication. Her research interests include digital media, theory-practice, fan studies, gender, race, and Japanese media. She focuses particularly on labor and transforming models of creative industries and capitalism.
Reviews for The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship
The transcultural orientation of The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship reflects and elucidates the geographical, cultural, and material diversity of contemporary digital fan production. Essays ranging from the broadly theoretical to intricate case studies open up new paths for further research. Lori Morimoto, Temple University Japan - Kyoto, Japan
