Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video from the Beatles to the White Stripes

by Saul Austerlitz

Book Overview

Picture yourself in a darkened movie theater, or soothed by the pleasing glow of a television screen. You are watching as a history of the moving image unfolds onscreen, but this history will not take note of D.W. Griffith or Jean Renoir, nor will King Kong or Jaws make an appearance. As the images flicker past - of four ebullient Britishmen turning cartwheels in an open field, a man tap-dancing on an urban sidewalk, a wedding party in a rainstorm,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826429580
• ISBN13: 9780826429582
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"