The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship by... - 9781032717364

The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital AuthorshipAuthor(s): Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032717364, 978-1032717364\nSynopsis\nThis cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres.\n\nEditors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have assembled an edited collection that showcases the aesthetic diversity and transcultural dynamics at play in fan video as a widespread form. The collection explores the relationships between fan video as a set of DIY subcultural authorship forms and the broader evolving popular cultures of digital media, looking at how fan video structures and aesthetics influence other popular and commercial forms of digital video. In order to do so, it examines a wide range of fan video genres and practices, including vidding, reaction videos, self-insert TikT.