Sound and Vision. The Music Video Reader

CONTENIDO:

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I: The context of musical videod
- Popular music and postmodernism in the 1980s

Part II: Music and television
- Sound, image and social space: music video and media reconstruction
- Fatal distractions: MTV meets postmodern theory
- Youth / Music / Television
- Commercials go rock

Part III: Video analysis
- Monster metaphors: Notes on Michael Jackson's Thriller
- Genre and form: The development of the country music video
- Being discovered: The emergence of female address on MTV
- Forging masculinity: Heavy-Metal sounds and images of gender

Part IV: Conclusion
- The media economy of rock culture: cinema, postmodernity and authenticity

Name index
Film, TV programme and video index