Music/Video - Histories, Aesthetics, Media (Hardcover, Paperback)

This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains relatively under-explored in a 21st century context. The music video has remained suspended between two distinct poles. On the one hand, the music video as the visual sheen of late capitalism, at the intersection of celebrity studies and postmodernism. On the other hand, the music video as art, looking to a prehistory of avant-garde film-making while perpetually pushing forward the digital frontier with a taste for anarchy, controversy, and the integration of special effects into a form designed to be disseminated across digital platforms. In this way, the music video virally re-engenders debates about high art and low culture. This collection presents a comprehensive account of the music video from a contemporary 21st century perspective. This entails revisiting key moments in the canonical history of the music video, exploring its articulations of sexuality and gender, examining its functioning as a form of artistic expression between music, film and video art, and following the music video's dissemination into the digital domain, considering how digital media and social media have come to re-invent the forms and functions of the music video, well beyond the limits of "music television".

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2017
Editors:	Gina Arnold • Daniel Cookney (Senior Lecturer) • Kirsty Fairclough (Associate Dean: Research and Innovation) • Michael Goddard
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	328
Edition:	Paperback
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-1390-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Promotions
LSN:	1-5013-1390-8
Barcode:	9781501313905

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