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.
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
T. Jonesy and Killa's 2003 constructed reality vid puts a classic "pon farr" scenario up on the screen: "What if they hadn't made it to Vulcan in time?" Masterful editing and distressing of footage in service of this classic slash narrative.
One of New York magazine's Best Videos of the year, and that's no lie. In Vogue, Luminosity punctures the violence of 300 by defiantly aestheticizing both the battlefield and the men on it. She conflates the battlefield and the dance floor, subjecting the men to a female and queer gaze and setting Madonna up as this world's reigning pagan goddess. An instant classic that went straight into vidding canon.
Another excerpt from "The Cage"; Vina snorts that Number One is no better than a computer. Number One retorts by doing some pretty catty mathematics.This clip has been cited in, Francesca Coppa, 2008, Women, Star Trek, and the early development of fannish vidding, Transformative Works and Cultures, Issue #1,