Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural ContextColumbia University Press, 2004 - 341 pagine Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos continue to exert an enormous influence on popular music. They help to create an artist's identity, to affect a song's mood, to determine chart success: the music video has changed our idea of the popular song. Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from the songs they illuminate--and sell. Carol Vernallis describes how verbal, musical, and visual codes combine in music video to create defining representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and performance. The book explores the complex interactions of narrative, settings, props, costumes, lyrics, and much more. Three chapters contain close analyses of important videos: Madonna's "Cherish," Prince's "Gett Off," and Peter Gabriel's "Mercy St." |
Sommario
Telling and Not Telling | 3 |
Editing | 27 |
Actors | 54 |
Settings | 73 |
Props and Costumes | 99 |
Interlude Space Color Texture and Time | 109 |
Lyrics | 137 |
Musical Parameters | 156 |
Analytical Methods | 199 |
The Aesthetics of Music Video An Analysis of Madonnas Cherish | 209 |
Desire Opulence and Musical Authority The Relation of Music and Image in Princes Gett Off | |
Peter Gabriels Elegy for Anne Sexton Image and Music in Mercy St | |
Afterword | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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