Week 1 Sept 13 introduction

• Coppa, Francesca and Julie Levin Russo. "Editorial Fan/remix video (a remix)"
• Lessig, Introduction
• For these opening inquiries, introduce yourselves online on Canvas, and respond to a fellow classmate or two. In your introductions, touch on something that caught your attention in this week's introductory readings. Feel free to include a couple of links to your favorite media/interests etc or attach an image if you are so inspired.

(1^st inquiry due Thursday September 15. 1^st response due Saturday September 17)

***Note--please watch the screening for this week on your own; for logistical reasons, we'll hold off on starting our collective screenings till next week. But do watch this and be ready to talk about it in class next week: Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix Remastered. ***

Week 2 Sept 20 fair use & creative commons

Set up your YouTube or Vimeo account by class Sept 20

• On Fair Use: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
• "Interview with Eric Faden and Nina Paley." (Please read and watch the video)
• Creative Commons Licenses Explained in Plain English

PART 2 Respond/Remix

Friday September 23 @5PM Creative Commons Remixes Due

Week 3 Sept 27 spreadability

• Jenkins, Henry. “If it Doesn’t Spread, it’s Dead
• Vellar, Agnese. “Spreading the cult body on YouTube: A case study of ‘Telephone’ derivative videos." 
  
• Lessig Chapter 2
• Photocopier retells the story behind his awesome Nyan Cat remix (The Daily Dot)
  

Week 4 Oct 04 remix as intervention

Political Remix Video Group Led Discussion

• Edwards & Tyron. “Political Video Mashups as Allegories of Citizen Empowerment.”
• Lessig Chapter 2
• Lothian, Alexis. “Living in a Den of Thieves”
  

•  Coppa, Francesca. “An Editing Room of One’s Own.”
• Coppa, Francesca. "Women, Star Trek, and the Development of Early Fannish Vidding."
• Lessig Chapter 3

PART 3 Vidding & Evolving Modes of Video Remix

October 18^th Midterm Recess

Friday Oct 21 @5PM Respond/Remix Video & Commentary due

Week 6 OCT 25 trailers & videographic criticism

Trailers & Videographic Crit Group Led Discussion

• Williams, Kathleen Ann. “Fake and fan film trailers as incarnations of audience anticipation and desire.”
• What is videographic Criticism?
• Corey Creekmur, “How does film feel? Toward affective videographic criticism.” The Cine-Files (2016)
• Lessig Chapter 4

Week 7 NOV 1 AMVs & other remix histories

AMV Group Led Discussion

• Horwatt, Eli. "A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing."
• Roberts, Ian. "Genesis of the digital anime music video scene, 1990–2001." 
• McIntosh, Jonathan. "A history of subversive remix video before YouTube: Thirty political video
  mashups made between World War II and 2005."  
• Lessig Chapter 5

Friday Nov 4 @ 5PM Mid-Term Close Analysis Essay Due

Week 8 NOV 8 focus on music

Music Remix Group Led Discussion

• Navas, Eduardo. “Remix Defined.” [If you’d like to read more from Navas, try here.]
• “What we talk about when we talk about Girl Talk” and “RemixingGirl Talk.” 
• Lessig Chapter 6

Week 9 NOV 15 gender/sexuality/race critique in remix authorship

• Sex, Lies, and Video Remixes: Critiquing 'Mad Men' in Its Own Words 
• Francesca Coppa and Rebecca Tushnet, "How to Suppress Women's Remix."
• Thingswithwings. “Some thoughts on manpain.” 
• Kreisinger, Elisa. "Queer video remix and LGBTQ online communities."

PART 4 Remix Synthesis: Rethink, Revise, Remix

Friday Nov 18 at 5PM Modal Remixes Due

Week 10 NOV 22 remixers speak

Remix Personal Narratives Group Led Discussion

• Vidder profiles (We'll watch these in our screening but you can view them again on your own for reference here): kiki_miserychic; charmax; obsessive24
• Documenting the vidders: A conversation with Bradcpu 
• DJ Spooky. "In Through the Out Door." 
• DJ Spooky Wants to Remix the Climate Fight
• “Desiree D'Alessandro and Diran Lyons bear arms: Weapons of mass transformation”
  

Week 11 Nov 29 mixing modes

• Leduc, Martin. “The two-source illusion: How vidding practices changed Jonathan McIntosh's political remix videos.” 
• Lori Morimoto on Videographic Criticism and vidding (forthcoming)
• On Vine Vids and Videographic Criticism (by me J)
  

Week 12 crazy final editing party the first

• Closing thought readings TBD
•  Lessig 9 & 10
  

Time to finish projects and to reopen, revise, rethink, and remix.

Tuesday Dec 6th @ 5PM Intermodal Remix Rough Draft Due (for in class sharing/feedback(

Friday Dec 9th Intermodal Remix Due

Dec 8 Screening: Final Remix Presentation

Tuesday Dec 13th Remix Redux (revise any remix!) due

Tuesday Dec 13 @5PM Final Intermodal Written Components Due