Routledge Interpreting Music Video - Post-MTV Era Analysis

Interpreting Music Video: Popular Music in the Post-MTV Era provides a clear way for students to study the musical, visual, and sociological sides of music videos. As a central part of modern popular culture, music videos require a specific set of tools to understand fully. This book offers those tools by combining methods from musical analysis, film and media studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies. This concise and accessible text uses relevant examples from many different genres to help readers analyze multimedia forms. Because it is designed as an introduction, it requires no previous knowledge to use. Readers can learn to look at music videos through multiple dimensions, making it a practical resource for anyone interested in how visual media and music work together in the current era.