So what happens when something in the would of LEGO Heartlake City catches on fire? Since there are no fire or medical services in the new “LEGO’s for girls” Friends theme I guess they’ll just have to call the boys to put it out. This is the kind of absurd situation that arise when toy [...]
Video description: An episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is interrupted by a remixed critique of the show’s gender imbalance and “boys’ locker room” comedy stylings. The remix takeover was created with clips borrowed from over 100 episodes of The Daily Show combined with the Flight of the Conchords song “Too Many Dicks [...]
Over the past several years I’ve been recording TV commercials and using them in educational remixing workshops. I’ve found that fair-use remix video can be a fantastic way to combine critical media literacy, technical skills and creative play to help youth understand, deconstruct and reconstruct mass media messages about gender roles. At the 2010 Open [...]
UPDATE #2: On January 10th 2013 I received a one line email from the YouTube team saying simply “The content has been reinstated.” UPDATE #1: Lionsgate has filed a bogus DMCA takedown on this fair use remix. I’m currently fighting to get it restored, in the meantime you can see the HTML5 popup version of Buffy vs Edward here. “I’m really [...]
I originally wrote this for a guest post on Women In Media & News. It was first published there on July 1st 2009. ———————– I usually try to stay away from forces of darkness, but last week I killed a famous vampire – and let me tell you, it was fun! Actually, I didn’t stake him myself [...]
