Music video and the politics of representation

Music video and the politics of representation /

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 ana...

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Main Author: Railton, Diane
Other Authors: Watson, Paul, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011
Series:Music and the moving image.
Subjects:
Music videos > Social aspects.
Music videos > History and criticism.
Feminism and music.
Electronic books.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The Kleenexes of popular culture?
  • Part I Towards a critical vocabulary : 1. Situating music video: between feminism and popular culture
  • 2. Genre and music video: configurations and functions
  • 3. Making it real: authorship and authenticity
  • Part II 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
  • Afterword: Music video goes Gaga
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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