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Music video and the politics of representation / Diane Railton and Paul Watson.
LIBRA PN1992.8.M87 R35 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Railton, Diane.
- Series:
- Music and the moving image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music videos--Social aspects.
- Music videos.
- Music videos--History and criticism.
- Feminism and music.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Provides a framework for how to describe and analyse a music video
- Uses case studies from internationally well-known artists, such as Kylie, Shakira and Beyoncé, to explore issues of representation of gender, sexuality and ethnicity
- Draws on classic and contemporary videos from a range of musical styles, from Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera to Gorillaz and Metallica Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Towards A Critical Vocabulary
- 1 Situating Music Video: Between Feminism and Popular Culture 17
- 2 Genre and Music Video: Configurations and Functions 41
- 3 Making it Real: Authorship and Authenticity 66
- Part II Sexed, Raced And Gendered Identity In Music Video
- 4 Music Video in Black and White: Race and Femininity 87
- 5 That Latin(a) Look: Performing Ethnicity 108
- 6 Masculinity and the Absent Presence of the Male Body 122.
- Notes:
- Videography: p. 162-165.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-162) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0748633235
- 9780748633234
- 9780748633227
- 0748633227
- OCLC:
- 261123098
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