http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/2011/04/09/gay-appreciation-mashup/ a reincarnation of a previous posterous blog Sat, 20 Jul 2013 02:11:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/2011/04/09/gay-appreciation-mashup/#comment-52 Lisa M Lane Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:22:41 +0000 http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/?p=37#comment-52 Thank you, Jim – praise indeed! You can’t imagine the total amount of joy that went into making it. I didn’t make the connection between that joyful creation and the fandom thing till you just now mentioned it.

]]> http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/2011/04/09/gay-appreciation-mashup/#comment-51 Jim Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:18:20 +0000 http://lisahistory.net/wpds106/?p=37#comment-51 Brilliantly conceived and executed—I love this mashup because it plays beyond any one work and develops a powerful reading that works brilliantly with the song. It is almost an anthem. What’s more, it also plays into the whole vidding culture idea of fan labor and the like which we have been talking about this week. In many ways the, as Brian Lamb argued a couple of weeks ago, we can see the idea of the mashup becoming so diffuse that the term is losing some of its power—and your video in my mind crosses the boundaries of several assignments, it is an interpreation of moments in all these films (the video essay), the recontextualizing of the clips (mashup/remix), and an homage (fandom). As usual, you break all the rules and make them new again Awesome stuff.

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