Looks like I’m hopping on the YouTube train with Vivian and Taj. The other day, I saw this video in my YouTube recommendations: I’m not sure why YouTube recommended this to me, exactly. Okay, no, wait—I’m pretty sure it’s because I spend unholy amounts of time watching Miley Cyrus videos and replaying my favorite clips…
Much like Hannah Feustle, I was reminded while reading Framing Remix Rhetorically of a video that I watched in one of my high school English classes—a CrashCourse video discussing Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. “We are just trying to create educational content in the hopes that it will be useful to people” John Green…
Dustin Edwards argues that remixes should be “distinctive in purpose, delivery, design and style” (42). I noticed that the posts published so far on this topic are mostly about the remixing of stories, videos, and songs. The first time I considered copyright beyond written text, it was in an art classroom. At the start of…
The remixed text that I chose to cover is Todrick Hall’s video The Wizard of Ahhs. The texts that have been sampled are: The movie The Wizard of Oz, classic music videos, and many popular pop songs – such as Blown Away by Carrie Underwood, Damaged by Danity Kane, Can’t be Tamed by Miley Cyrus and I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor…
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…
Much like Vivian, YouTube is home to one of my favorite examples of remix. Screen Junkies is an online magazine and YouTube Channel that focuses on the world of film and television, and is also home to their most popular series, Honest Trailers. The trailers are just like average movie trailers, but instead of showcasing…