Music Video and the Politics of Representation

ISBN-13: 9780748633227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 184 str.

Diane Railton;Paul Watson

Opis

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 Watson show why and how we should be studying music videos in the twenty-first century.Through its thorough overview of the music video as a visual medium, this is an ideal textbook for Media Studies students and all those with an interest in popular music and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Part 1: Towards a Critical Vocabulary; 1. Situating Music Video: Between Feminism and Popular Culture; 2. Genre and Music Video: Configurations and Functions; 3. Making it Read: Authorship and Authenticity; Part 2: Sexed, Raced and Gendered Identity in Music Video; 4. Music Video in Black and White: Race and Femininity; 5. That Latin(a) Look: Performing Ethnicity; 6. Masculinity and the Absent Presence of the Male Body