Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Script INTRODUCTION: CRITICAL THEORY, POPULAR CULTURE, AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA Popular Music Sound Film Television Part 1. Popular Music: Hi-Lo Fidelity 1. ROCK 'N' THEORY: CULTURAL STUDIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND THE DEATH OF ROCK A Side: The Birth of Rock, or Memory Train B Side: Rock in Theory The Culture of Rock Rock, Rap, and Riot Grrrls World Musics: After Rock Imperialism Production of Culture Forced Choice: Britney or Avril? My Generation 2. ROLL OVER ADORNO: BEETHOVEN, CHUCK BERRY, AND POPULAR MUSIC IN THE AGE OF MP3 Mass Culture, Ersatz Kantianism From Beethoven to Fascism Amerika: Beethoven or Bikinis Radio Days "Roll Over Beethoven" Magic Spell and the Two Spheres of Music MP3 Fantasia REPRISE: BEETHOVEN'S HAIR Part 2. Sound Film: Screen Theory and Audiovisuality 3. THE SUTURE SCENARIO: AUDIOVISUALITY AND POST-SCREEN THEORY Theory: The Suture Scenario Post-Screen Theory: Suture-as-Desuturing Audiovisuality in Tongues Untied and Set It Off Illustration A: Tongues Untied "Lover Man": Lady Day/Blue Boy En Vogue Illustration B: Set It Off Cleopatra Jones Redux: Queen Latifah as Gangsta Butch Diva G-Funk: Girlz N the Hood Crossroads 4. AUDIOPHILIA: AUDIOVISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA IN JACKIE BROWN Cinephilia Scopophilia From Scopophilia to Audiophilia: The Gaze qua Race Audiophilia: Auditing Jackie Brown "Across 110th Street": Overture "Street Life": Jackie as Femme Noire "Across 110th Street": Denouement Audiophilia Reconsidered: "Asking for It" Counterpoint: Post-Soul Music or Pre-Gangsta Rap? REPRISE: ALEX'S "LOVELY LUDWIG VAN" AND MARTY MCFLY'S WHITE ROCK MINSTREL SHOW Part 3. TV: Television, Telephilia, Televisuality 5. GEN-X TV: POLITICAL-LIBIDINAL STRUCTURES OF FEELING IN MELROSE PLACE PREVIEW After the Reagan Dynasty: "Help Me, Rhonda" From Race to Sex-Gender: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang The Romance of Capital: Fox, Female Address, and Postfeminism Melrose Space: The Fashion Mode Adcult: The Commercial Supertext Review 6. SHOT/COUNTERSHOT: SEXUALITY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND POSTMODERN STYLE IN THE SOPRANOS Shot: The Godfather Citationality: The Gangster as Serio-Comic Hero "I'm a Man": Crossing Cultures Psycho-Gangster TV: Seriality and Self-Reflexivity A la Recherche du temps perdu Primal Scene: Capicola as Proustian "Tea Cookie" Countershot: Case Study Black and Blue: Puzo's Women Repetition Compulsion: From The Godfather to The Sopranos Beyond the University Post-Mortem: Bad Love D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Tele-Psychoanalytic Metatext Apres Coup: Analysis Interminable Martini Shot: "Hall Hath No Fury" REPRISE: TONY SOPRANO, MEET BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Robert Miklitsch is Associate Professor of Critical Theory at Ohio University. He is the author of From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism," also published by SUNY Press.

Reviews

"The undercutting of the distinction between classical and rock music is one of the great insights of this book. Miklitsch sees how classical music is not really autonomous in the way that someone that Adorno would claim. It instead, suffers from the same heteronomy that infects rock music. By working to eliminate the barrier between high and low, the author helps to open us up to a whole new way of experiencing the aesthetic, a mode of experiencing that we must adopt in order to exist within contemporary culture."