Music Video and the Politics of Representation

by Diane Railton and Paul Watson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748633235
• ISBN13: 9780748633234
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher