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Music Video and the Politics of Representation
Diane Railton
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Description for Music Video and the Politics of Representation
Paperback. A study of the music video. Series: Music and the Moving Image. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Music and the Moving Image
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748633234
SKU
V9780748633234
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About Diane Railton
Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University. Principal Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University
Reviews for Music Video and the Politics of Representation
Music Video and the Politics of Representation provides an essential contribution to the literature, offering new ways of thinking about narrative, genre, representation and form. Especially valuable are its case studies, which consider videos that share musical styles or mode of address: here music video's oddness comes forward, its unexpected, shifting and quirky meanings. This book is an important addition ... Read more