As I read Framing Remix Rhetorically, I found myself thinking about a video I first watched in English class during senior year of high school—the Thug Notes summary and analysis of Hamlet. Thug Notes is a YouTube web series aimed at students. In the videos, comedian Greg Edwards, acting as the character “Sparky Sweets, Ph.D.”,…
There have been many remixes of Pride and Prejudice, in movies and books. Kiera gives an example in her post of the popular novel Pride and Prejudice Zombies. Another remix is a contemporary young adult romance novel called Epic Fail, by Claire LaZebnik. It was published by Harper Collins in August of 2011. I was obsessed with Pride…
In her 2006 poetry collection Averno, Louise Glück writes a series of poems based on the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone. This myth was originally intended to explain the changing of the seasons. Generally, the myth states that Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, an earth goddess or Mother Earth. One day, when she…
Pride and Prejudice is a classic tale written by Jane Austen. It has been studied and written about and more recently it has been remixed into Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith. The story contains the same characters as the original and the same English town. But this time Elizabeth is well versed…
Punk Goes Pop is a series of albums that are made up exclusively of popular music that has been remixed into the punk genre. The first volume was released in 2002, and included modern hits such as “…Baby One More Time”, covered by NICOTINE, though originally by Britney Spears, and “Bye Bye Bye” covered by…