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morgandawnPosted in full at: https://ift.tt/2CngJHN on March 09, 2019 at 04:00PM
“What links all four themes I found within the vids together is a desire to transform or change the surface narratives being presented within SPN. For shared suffering, the vids changed the canon narrative of familial love being strength and putting your family first as an ultimate goal into something often far more dark and twisted. Instead of providing strength to Sam and Dean as in canon, vids with the shared suffering theme consistently point out the ways in which this loyalty and familial piety actually works to destroy the Winchester family. With the beauty of men’s pain, vidders actually deconstruct the canon narrative in two ways.
First, by focusing on the artistic images of men in pain, they are ignoring the far more prevalent images of women in pain. The vids also highlight a contrast of the sexualization of pain between the two genders in canon; women’s deaths are more likely to be shown on camera, more likely to be brutal, and more likely to be sexualized through location (e.g., bedrooms) or apparel (e.g., nightclothes, undergarments). Men’s deaths are rarely shown on screen and even of the male leads and the three other reoccurring male characters (i.e., John Winchester, Bobby Singer, Castiel), the audience is rarely going to see any of them hurt or injured. So the vidding emphasis on men’s pain, compared to the canon’s emphasis or glorification of women’s pain provides a unique contrast.
It also becomes the second way in which vidding contradicts canon by highlighting the ways in which canon’s heteronormative masculinity is broken. While the scenes vidders use are from canon and the argument could be made that canon itself is deviating from its presentations of masculinity, the difference between the presentation on screen and the self-concept held by the characters is never clearer than in these vids. Within the context of canon, the injuries
suffered by the men are often downplayed or treated as “war wounds.” The display of pain and hurt becomes both heroic and masculine within canon. In the beauty of men’s pain, the heroism is removed from the narrative to be replaced with weakness.”
Source: “Veni, vidi, vids: Transforming cultural narratives through the art of audiovisual storytellingBrownfield, Kristi.Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. 3733178. “
Tags:queued, vidding meta, fandom meta, supernatural, man pain, spn, fanvid, fan vid, acafandom, DWCrosspost
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“What links all four themes I found within the vids together is a desire to transform or change the surface narratives being presented within SPN. For shared suffering, the vids changed the canon narrative of familial love being strength and putting your family first as an ultimate goal into something often far more dark and twisted. Instead of providing strength to Sam and Dean as in canon, vids with the shared suffering theme consistently point out the ways in which this loyalty and familial piety actually works to destroy the Winchester family. With the beauty of men’s pain, vidders actually deconstruct the canon narrative in two ways.
First, by focusing on the artistic images of men in pain, they are ignoring the far more prevalent images of women in pain. The vids also highlight a contrast of the sexualization of pain between the two genders in canon; women’s deaths are more likely to be shown on camera, more likely to be brutal, and more likely to be sexualized through location (e.g., bedrooms) or apparel (e.g., nightclothes, undergarments). Men’s deaths are rarely shown on screen and even of the male leads and the three other reoccurring male characters (i.e., John Winchester, Bobby Singer, Castiel), the audience is rarely going to see any of them hurt or injured. So the vidding emphasis on men’s pain, compared to the canon’s emphasis or glorification of women’s pain provides a unique contrast.
It also becomes the second way in which vidding contradicts canon by highlighting the ways in which canon’s heteronormative masculinity is broken. While the scenes vidders use are from canon and the argument could be made that canon itself is deviating from its presentations of masculinity, the difference between the presentation on screen and the self-concept held by the characters is never clearer than in these vids. Within the context of canon, the injuries
suffered by the men are often downplayed or treated as “war wounds.” The display of pain and hurt becomes both heroic and masculine within canon. In the beauty of men’s pain, the heroism is removed from the narrative to be replaced with weakness.”
Source: “Veni, vidi, vids: Transforming cultural narratives through the art of audiovisual storytellingBrownfield, Kristi.Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2015. 3733178. “
Tags:queued, vidding meta, fandom meta, supernatural, man pain, spn, fanvid, fan vid, acafandom, DWCrosspost
Tumblr post (this is likely a reblog, and may have more pictures over there)