Overview

Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before. As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely accessible than ever before. In Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro examines the ways that music videos interact with and change older media like movies and gallery art; the use of technologies like compositing, motion control, morphing software, and other digital special effects in order to create a new organization of time and space; how artists use music videos to project their personas; and how less well known musicians use music videos to extend their range and attract attention. Surveying a wide range of music videos, Shaviro highlights some of their most striking innovations while illustrating how these videos are creating a whole new digital world for the music industry.

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Author:   Steven Shaviro
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.141kg
ISBN:  

9780813579535

ISBN 10:   0813579538
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   15 April 2017
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction   1 Superimpositions Labrinth, “Let It Be” (Us, 2014) Rihanna, “Disturbia” (Anthony Mandler, 2007) Lana Del Rey, “Shades of Cool” (Jake Nava, 2014)   2 Glitch Aesthetics Allie X, “Catch” (Jérémie Saindon, 2015) FKA twigs, “Papi Pacify” (Tom Beard and FKA twigs, 2013) Janelle Monáe, “Cold War” (Wendy Morgan, 2010)   3 Remediations Animal Collective, “Applesauce” (Gaspar Noé, 2013) Kylie Minogue, “All the Lovers” (Joseph Kahn, 2010) Dawn Richard, “Choices” (Jayson Edward Carter, 2015)   4 Limits Massive Attack, “Take It There” (Hiro Murai, 2016) Sky Ferreira, “Night Time, My Time” (Grant Singer, 2013) Kari Faux, “Fantasy” (Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2016)   Further Reading Acknowledgments Works Cited Videos Cited Index

Reviews

-A beautiful book! With wide-eyed curiosity and a sense of joy, Steven Shaviro discovers new levels of richness and density in music video. Shaviro precisely captures the genre's latest turns, its shimmering surfaces, its cultural meanings--and why it seems ever more central to our culture.---Carol Vernallis -author of Unruly Media -

A beautiful book! With wide-eyed curiosity and a sense of joy, Steven Shaviro discovers new levels of richness and density in music video. Shaviro precisely captures the genre s latest turns, its shimmering surfaces, its cultural meanings--and why it seems ever more central to our culture. --Carol Vernallis author of Unruly Media

Author Information

STEVEN SHAVIRO is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of several books including, No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism.  

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