Experiencing Music Video : Aesthetics and Cultural Context
Editorial Reviews
Review
" Experiencing Music Video is the first book I'd ever read that really does take music video seriously. Carol Vernallis is an obsessive, passionate and continuously surprising video viewer, and succeeds in creating a quite new analytic field." -- Simon Frith, University of Stirling
"A thorough, stimulating account of the art of music video. Vernallis provides imaginative analyses that are sensitive to the expressive dimension of image/ sound combinations. She shows how the power of music videos depends largely on the elusive associations conjured up by fleeting images and swift turns of sound." -- David Bordwell, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Vernallis has done what no one else has to date... she has seen beyond the surface of the music video and has found the true and unique language of the art form." -- Francis Lawrence, film/music video director
Book Description
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."
Experiencing Music Video : Aesthetics and Cultural Context
Experiencing Music Video : Aesthetics and Cultural Context,Carol Vernallis,Columbia University Press,023111799X,General,History & Criticism - General,History and criticism,Music,Music videos,Popular Culture - General,Social aspects
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