Francesca Coppa is Director of Film Studies and Associate Professor of English at Muhlenberg College. She is also a founding board member of the Organization For Transformative Works (OTW), and the current chair of the Vidding History committee.
An excerpt from Kandy Fong's first Star Trek slideshow (made 1974, first shown in public 1975), containing what she regards as the first fan vid - a story told to the filk song, "What Do You Do With A Drunken Vulcan?" sung by Fong and her friends.
Slideshow by Kandy Fong based on the filk song, "Banned from Argo," by Leslie Fish.
Made by Kandy Fong to entertain the United Federation of Phoenix, the oldest, longest running Star Trek fan club in the world. Showed to the club in 1974, and debuted publicly at Equicon 75/Filmcon 3 in 1975. Recreated and filmed by the Vidding Committee of the OTW at the 2012 Vividcon in Chicago.
This is a trailer for the Fan/Remix Video special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures co-edited by Francesca Coppa and Julie Levin Russo. This trailer was made by Kevin Tomasura, Research Assistant to Francesca Coppa at Muhlenberg College.
This is a trailer for the Fan/Remix Video special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures co-edited by Francesca Coppa and Julie Levin Russo. This trailer was made by Kevin Tomasura, Research Assistant to Francesca Coppa at Muhlenberg College.
This is a trailer for the Fan/Remix Video special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures co-edited by Francesca Coppa and Julie Levin Russo. This trailer was made by Kevin Tomasura, Research Assistant to Francesca Coppa at Muhlenberg College.
Featured in the 2010 24/7 DIY Video Show out of USC. ; Battlestar Galactica character vid featuring Starbuck.
A talk given by Francesca Coppa at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, as part of their year-long First Year Experience on Remix.
This metavid samples many famous vids and contextualizes some of the history of vidding fandom. Cited in Cathy Cupitt's TWC article, Nothing but Net: When cultures collide.
A rare, fourth-wall breaking comedy metavid from Tzikeh
