Music Video and the Politics of Representation (Music and the Moving Image EUP)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0748633235 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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How can we engage critically with music video and its role in popular culture? What do contemporary music videos have to tell us about patterns of cultural identity today? Based around an eclectic series of vivid case studies, this fresh and timely examination is an entertaining and enlightening analysis of the forms, pleasures, and politics that music videos offer. In rethinking some classic approaches from film studies and popular music studies and connecting them with new debates about the current 'state' of feminism and feminist theory, Railton and
Especially valuable are its case studies, which consider videos that share musical styles or mode of address: here music video's oddness comes forward, its unexpected, shifting and quirky meanings. This book is an important addition that will help initiate a renaissance of scholarship on the genre. Especially valuable are its case studies, which consider videos that share musical styles or mode of address: here music video's oddness comes forward, its unexpected, shifting and quirky meanings. This book is an important addition that will help initiate a renaissance of scholarship on the genre. -- Carol Vernallis, Associate Professor, Arizona State University Music Video and the Politics of Representation provides an essential contribution to the literature, offering new ways of thinking about narrative, genre, representation and form. Mus
Majel Connery said This is one of the only truly excellent books on music video. This is one of the only truly excellent books on music video. It's thoughtful, theoretically rigorous, and suitable to even a graduate-level course (on, for instance, multimedia). Highly recommend.
Diane Railton is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the Teesside University.Paul Watson is Principal Lecturer in English Studies at the Teesside University.