Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Theory Telling and Not Telling Editing Actors Settings Props and Costumes Interlude: Space, Color, Texture, and Time Lyrics Musical Parameters Connections Among Music, Image, and Lyrics Analytical Methods Analyses The Aesthetics of Music Video: An Analysis of Madonna's "Cherish" Desire, Opulence, and Musical Authority: The Relation of Music and Image in Prince's "Gett Off" Peter Gabriel's Elegy for Anne Sexton: Image and Music in "Mercy St." Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Here at last is a study that treats music video as a distinct multimedia artistic genre, different from film, television, and indeed from songs themselves. Carol Vernallis describes how musical, visual and verbal codes work together in music video and reveals modes of representing race, class, gender, and sexuality that characterize the music video form.

About the Author

Carol Vernallis is associate professor in the Media Arts and Studies Division of the Communication Department at Wayne State University.

Reviews

"This book is the first to take music video seriously as a multimedia genre in its own right. Carol Vernallis not only has an intimate knowledge of the repertory, but also brings together perspectives that have in the past been pursued in isolation: the musical and the cinematic, the technical and the cultural. With its combination of theoretical topics and case studies, this book is the definitive one-stop solution for anybody who wants not just to experience, but to really understand, music videos." -- Nicholas Cook, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London, "Editor, Journal of the Royal Musical Association"

Vernallis has done what no one else has to date . . . she has seen beyond the surface of the music video and has found the true and unique language of the art form.