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vi CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION. 1 Review of Relevant Literature: Connecting Participatory Culture, Memetics, Performance, and Adaptation. 3 Significance of the Study and the Performance Studies Frame. 13 Video Typology and Chapter Outline. 21 CHAPTER 2: THE MANY VOICES OF ANTOINE DODSON. 30 Method. 33 Dodson Adaptations: Songified or Otherwise Altered. 35 Points of Convergence: Race, Class, Gender. 38 Response Videos and Camp. 41 Loss in Translation: From News to Song. 45 Songification and Operatic Ideals. 47 CHAPTER 3: THE MANY FACES OF SWEET BROWN. 49 Labeling, Covers, and Caricature: Confusion. 51 Techno play and Embodiment. 54 Sweet Brown Remakes. 55 Response Videos and Camp: Revisited 58 Racial Representation on Television News. 61 All In the Family Room: Child Reenactors and Racial Innocence. 63 Reenactment and Scriptive Things. 66 Tomitudes, Minstrelsy, and Memes. 68 Cewebrity and Authenticity. 73 CHAPTER 4: HITLER..PLAYED BY DER UNTERGANGERS. 79 Performing Subtitles. 83 Becoming Hitler. 91 Gatekeeping, Inside Jokes, and Meta parodies. 95 Cultural Commentary via Hitler. 100 Copyright, Fair Use, and the "Streisand Effect" 103 CHAPTER 5: SWEDING DIRTY HARRY: COLLAGED CONFESSIONS OF A CINEMASOCHIST. 111 Bad Cinema and the Cinemasochist. 114 Be Kind Rewind: Hollywood does Cinemasochism. 117 Re Rewind: Echoes of the Portapak in Sweded Cinema. 121 The Neverending Story (Sweded) 124 Sharing Sweded Cinema or Trying to Spread the Fun. 127 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Sweded) 127