Medium cool : music videos from soundies to cellphones / Roger Beebe and Jason Middleton, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beebe, Roger, 1971-

Middleton, Jason, 1971-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music videos--History and criticism.

Music videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

showcases a new generation of scholarship on music video as a cultural form.

Contents:

Introduction / Jason Middleton and Roger Beebe

Music video and synaesthetic possibility / Kay Dickinson

Illustrating music: the impossible embodiments of the jukebox film / Amy Herzog

The audio-vision of found-footage film and video / Jason Middleton

Art/music/video.com / Maureen Turim

Strange people, weird objects: the nature of narrativity, character, and editing in music videos / Carol Vernallis

Dancing to a pacific beat: music video in Papua New Guinea / Philip Hayward

Visions of a sound nation: Finnish music videos and secured otherness / Antti-Ville Karja

"Coming to you wherever you are": exploring the imagined communities of MuchMusic (Canada) and MTV (United States) / Kip Pegley

Elvis from the waist up and other myths: 1950s music television and the gendering of rock discourse / Norma Coates

Elvis goes global: aloha! Elvis live via satellite and music/tourism/television / Lisa Parks and Melissa McCartney

Video and the theater of purity / Warren Zanes

"I'm from rags to riches": the death of Jay-Z / Cynthia Fuchs

Paradoxes of pastiche: Spike Jonze, Hype Williams, and the race of the postmodern auteur / Roger Beebe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index.

ISBN:

0-8223-4139-5

9786613023308

1-283-02330-X

OCLC:

271166238