This book puts sampling studies on the academic map by focusing on sampling as a logic of exchange between audio-visual media. While some recent scholarship has addressed sampling primarily in relation to copyright, this book is a first: a critical study of sampling and remixing across audio-visual media. Of special interest here are works that bring together both audio and visual sampling: music that samples film and television; underground dance and multimedia scenes that rely on sampling; Internet "memes" that repurpose music videos, trailers and news broadcasts; films and videos that incorporate a wide range of sampling aesthetics; and other provocative variations. Comprised of four sections titled "roots," "scenes," "cinema" and "web" this collection digs deep into and across sampling practices that intervene in popular culture from unconventional or subversive perspectives. To this end, Sampling Media extends the conceptual boundaries of sampling by emphasizing its inter-medial dimensions, exploring the politics of sampling practice beyond copyright law, and examining its more marginal applications. It likewise puts into conversation compelling instances of sampling from a wide variety of historical and contemporary, global and local contexts.

About the Companion WebsiteList of ContributorsIntroduction: Into the Remix: the Culture of Sampling 1Laurel Westrup and David LadermanPART I: ROOTSChapter 1: Shadow/Play: The Cinematic, Remixed, by David LadermanChapter 2 : Remixing With Rules: Constraint and Potential in Restrictive Remixes, by Richard L. EdwardsChapter 3 : "Whatever Rubbish Was at Hand": The Emergence of the Media Sample in Guy Debord's Films, by R.D. CranoChapter 4 : Rigorous Infidelity: Whole Text Sampling in the Curatorial Work of Henri Langlois, Dewey Phillips, and Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, by Barry MauerPART II: SCENESChapter 5: The Sydney Club Scene and the Sampling of Global Electronic Dance Music Culture, by Ed MontanoChapter 6: Piggin' Out! Constructing Spanish Cultural History Through Media Sampling, by Miguel Fern?ndez Labayen & Vicente Rodr?guez OrtegaChapter 7: Time Stand Still: Sampling Scenes and Slowing Media, by Ryan Alexander DiduckChapter 8: From M?jico M?xico to Pol?tico: Sampling the Past and the Present in the Mexican Musical Scene, byH?ctor Fern?ndez L'HoestePART III: CINEMAChapter 9: Love in the Club: Karaoke Realism in Chinese and Hong Kong Cinema, by Brian HuChapter 10: Articulating a Hip Hop Sampling Aesthetic Through Film: Music and Memory in Three Hip Hop Documentaries, by Jesse StewartChapter 11: "Dreamlo-lo-lover Where Are You-u-u?" Sampling as Analysis, Sampling as Symptom, byMartin J. ZeilingerChapter 12: (In)appropriation: Productions of Laughter in Contemporary Found Footage Films, by Jaimie BaronPART IV: WEBChapter 13: All Work and No Play: Trailer Park, the Mashup, and Industrial Pedagogies, by Jonathan CohnChapter 14: Popular Culture through the Eyes, Ears, and Fingertips of Fans: Vidders, Anime Music Video Editors, and Their Sources, by Samantha CloseChapter 15: How the World is Being Remade: The Case of Antoine Dodson and the Limits of Sampling as Trans-Cultural and Cross-Class Expression, by Corella Di FedeChapter 16: Thinking Through Sampling, Literally, by Laurel WestrupAfterwordSampling Across the CurriculumLaurel Westrup and David LadermanBibliographyIndex