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- Title
Fan edits and the legacy of The Phantom Edit.
- Authors
Wille, Joshua
- Abstract
A fan edit can generally be defined as an alternative version of a film or television text created by a fan. It offers a different viewing experience, much as a song remix offers a different listening experience. The contemporary wave of fan edits has emerged during the remix zeitgeist of digital media and at a time when digital video editing technology has become more affordable and popular. The increasing number of alternative versions of films and the works of revisionist Hollywood filmmakers such as George Lucas have contributed to a greater public understanding of cinema as a fluid medium instead of one that exists in a fixed form. The Phantom Edit (2000), a seminal fan edit based on Lucas's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), inspired new ranks of fan editors. However, critics have misunderstood fan edits as merely the work of disgruntled fans. In order to provide a critical and historical basis for studies in fan editing as a creative practice, I examine previous interpretations of fan edits in the context of relevant contemporary works, and I use an annotated chronology of The Phantom Edit to trace its influence on subsequent fan editing communities and uncover their relationship with intellectual property disputes.
- Subjects
MOTION picture editing; TELEVISION film editing; DIGITAL media; INTELLECTUAL property; STAR Wars films
- Publication
Transformative Works & Cultures, 2014, Vol 17, p1
- ISSN
1941-2258
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3983/twc.2014.0575