The key concepts for discussion topics are Media institutions; fans & audiences; participation and remediation; culture jamming
To begin our week we did a critical reading Cucco, M. (2009). “The promise is great: the blockbuster and the Hollywood economy”. Media, Culture and Society, 31(2), 215-230
We then watched a series on fan vidding produced by the Organization for Transformative Works. http://transformativeworks.org/
The viding documentary series was very insightful, as it gave an understanding of the variety people and reasons/passions that drive fans to produce these music video clips.
The media that I identified for discussion was a viding construction of television footage from the hit 1970’s television series “The Bionic Woman” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kFa58BJWrA
The vid was uploaded by http://www.youtube.com/user/BenHallert onto youtube 30 December 2010 and edited to an electro pop song by Swedish musician ‘Robyn’. The song lyrics are self descriptive and refer to a gynoid (fembot) describing herself, as ‘fresh out the box’ and the ‘latest model’ with her system in ‘mint condition’. The accompanying imagery is from the 1970's hit show, in which the 'febot's' were a frightening evil nemesis to the 'Bionic Woman'.
The socially dated 1970's television series plot was that the strikingly beautiful robots (fembots), designed and operated by an evil male genius, were to replace strategically placed women in key administrative support roles and take over control of the American government. It was the role of the 'Bionic Woman to discover and foil the plot (as the eerily life like robots could only be detected by her bionic hearing).
The song lyrics referring to the fembots strength and perfection and also to her search for a perfect mate to ‘plug her in and flip some switches’ she also reveals a longing and vulnerability as the robot states she has feelings as well (the overall effect is to sexualise the characters as in the 2004 movie 'The Stepford Wives').
The songwriter Robyn wrote the song about herself turning 30 and contemplating children, and considers the song her playing around with the concept of being a woman, and what it means to physically be able to carry children.
To begin our week we did a critical reading Cucco, M. (2009). “The promise is great: the blockbuster and the Hollywood economy”. Media, Culture and Society, 31(2), 215-230
We then watched a series on fan vidding produced by the Organization for Transformative Works. http://transformativeworks.org/
The viding documentary series was very insightful, as it gave an understanding of the variety people and reasons/passions that drive fans to produce these music video clips.
The media that I identified for discussion was a viding construction of television footage from the hit 1970’s television series “The Bionic Woman” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kFa58BJWrA
The vid was uploaded by http://www.youtube.com/user/BenHallert onto youtube 30 December 2010 and edited to an electro pop song by Swedish musician ‘Robyn’. The song lyrics are self descriptive and refer to a gynoid (fembot) describing herself, as ‘fresh out the box’ and the ‘latest model’ with her system in ‘mint condition’. The accompanying imagery is from the 1970's hit show, in which the 'febot's' were a frightening evil nemesis to the 'Bionic Woman'.
The socially dated 1970's television series plot was that the strikingly beautiful robots (fembots), designed and operated by an evil male genius, were to replace strategically placed women in key administrative support roles and take over control of the American government. It was the role of the 'Bionic Woman to discover and foil the plot (as the eerily life like robots could only be detected by her bionic hearing).
The song lyrics referring to the fembots strength and perfection and also to her search for a perfect mate to ‘plug her in and flip some switches’ she also reveals a longing and vulnerability as the robot states she has feelings as well (the overall effect is to sexualise the characters as in the 2004 movie 'The Stepford Wives').
The songwriter Robyn wrote the song about herself turning 30 and contemplating children, and considers the song her playing around with the concept of being a woman, and what it means to physically be able to carry children.
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