This book draws on four decades of vids, produced on videotape and digitally, to argue that the vid form's creation and reception reveals a mode of engaged spectatorship that counters academic histories of media audiences and technologies.
E. Charlotte Stevens is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at Birmingham City University.
Introduction 1. Critical Contexts: Television Studies, Fandom Studies, and the Vid 2. Approach: How to Study a Vid 3. Proximate Forms and Sites of Encounter: Music Video and Experimental Tradition 4. Textures of Fascination: Archives, Vids, and Vernacular Historiography 5. Critical Spectatorship and Spectacle: Multifandom Vids 6. Adapting Kara Thrace: Dualbunny's Battlestar Galactica Trilogy Conclusion References Index