Description
Book SynopsisIn
Digital Music Videos, Steven Shaviro surveys a wide range of music videos, highlighting some of their most striking innovations. In sampling and reworking a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts, these videos create a whole new digital world for the music industry that offers a plethora of visions and sounds never before encountered.
Trade Review"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 *
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Digital Music Videos combines genuine fandom with lightly-worn erudition, infra-red insight, and page-turning readability." -- Dominic Pettman * author of Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
