Francesca Coppa

About this original series

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.

# Episodes
11 episodes
Rating
TV-UN

Episodes of Francesca Coppa

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  Art Bitch by Hollywoodgrrl
  
  Featured in the 2010 24/7 DIY Video Show out of USC. ; Battlestar Galactica character vid featuring Starbuck.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 15, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    02:20
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  Things We Don't Have In The Future...and How Fan...
  
  A talk given by Francesca Coppa at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, as part of their year-long First Year Experience on Remix.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 17, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    51:12
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  Destiny Calling by Counteragent
  
  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.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 7, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    04:21
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  Close To You by Tzikeh
  
  A rare, fourth-wall breaking comedy metavid from Tzikeh
  - Release date
    
    Jun 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    02:06
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  Closer by T. Jonesy and Killa
  
  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.
  - Release date
    
    Jun 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    03:29
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  Vogue by by Luminosity
  
  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.
  - Release date
    
    Jun 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    04:50
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  The Cage (excerpt) 1964
  
  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,
  - Release date
    
    Jun 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    00:18
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  The Cage (excerpt) 1964
  
  Captain Christopher Pike can't get used to women on the bridge of the Enterprise; Number One is "different, of course." From the 1964 failed Star Trek pilot, The Cage.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,
  - Release date
    
    Jun 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    00:35
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  Oh Boy (excerpt) by Sterling Eidolan and The Odd...
  
  This is an excerpt from the Quantum Leap vid "Oh Boy," made by members of the California Crew: Sterling Eidolan and The Odd Woman In. Made with two VCRs in the late 1980s, the vid is a marvel of synchronous editing and astounded audiences when it premiered.
  - Release date
    
    Jun 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    00:31
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  Both Sides Now by Kandy Fong
  
  Kandy Fong is widely acknowledged to be the first live action media vidder. She began making slideshows that set Trek footage to music in 1975. This slideshow, "Both Sides Now," was made circa 1980 and sent to Gene Roddenbery in 1986.
  - Release date
    
    Jun 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    02:55