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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819565503321

Autore

Goodwin Andrew <1956-2013>

Titolo

Dancing in the distraction factory : music television and popular culture / / Andrew Goodwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1992

ISBN

0-8166-8429-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xxiii, 237 pages)

Disciplina

791.45/657

Soggetti

Music videos

Television and music

Television - Semiotics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; ONE: Silence! Academics at Work; TWO: From Anarchy to Chromakey Developments in Music Television; THREE: A Musicology of the Image; FOUR: The Structure of Music Video Rethinking Narrative Analysis; FIVE: Metanarratives of Stardom and Identity; SIX: A Televisual Context: MTV; SEVEN: Aesthetics and Politics in Music Television Postmodernism Reconsidered; Concluding Thoughts; Music Television Time Line; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This first comprehensive, integrated analysis of MTV provides new ways to understand television and popular music narratives.