5: Remixing Greek Mythology from A Feminist Perspective

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…

5: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the Remix of a Classic

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…

5: Punk Goes Pop and A Successful Remix

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…

5: Honest Trailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eef-1HLKgoQ

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…

5) Mixing Or Plagiarism? Helene Hegemann’s Axolotl Roadkill

Helene Hegemann’s 2010 debut novel, Axolotl Roadkill, is about a troubled 16-year-old girl, Mifti, who has been living by herself in the grime and creative confusion of Berlin since the death of her mother. “What sets Mifti apart is her hypersensitivity and her open, questioning curiosity about an older generation that doesn’t seem to be…

5: Remixing Book Covers to Talk About Racism

The Baby-Sitters Club was a YA book series released in 1986 that followed a group of 11-13 year old girls running a babysitting service in a fictional town in Connecticut. In book #56, titled Keep Out, Claudia!, one of the girls, Claudia, who is Asian-American, is denied a job babysitting for a white family. After another girl…

5: Insane: A Tale of Remixing Gone Wrong

Last summer, I worked for a small amusement center called Funplex, located in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. It had a decent playlist consisting of a wide variety of music, but there was one song in particular that caught my ear each time it played. It started with the intro to “No Rain” by Blind Melon,…

5: The NRA and Parks and Rec – The GIF Battle

Screen Shot of NRA Twitter Post using Parks and Rec GIF of Leslie Knope saying "Thank you"

I was scrolling though my FaceBook feed  one day when an article caught my eye. It was a Buzzfeed article titled: “”Parks and Rec” Stars Slammed NRA for Using a Leslie Knope GIF.” I love the show “Parks and Rec”, and wanted to see what this was all about, so I clicked on the link….

5) The Lunar Chronicles as a Remix

The Lunar Chronicles are “futuristic retellings of classic fairy tales” (Meyer). Throughout her five novels, Marissa Meyer, a New York Times bestselling author, remakes the lives of four princesses: Cinderella (Cinder), Rapunzel (Cress), Red Riding Hood (Scarlet) and Snow White (Winter), as well as the Evil Queen (Queen Levana). In the first novel, the reader…