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Chapter 10 Music Television

Topics include: music television and music video, antecedents and influences, how music television organizes time, how music television relates to its audience, types of music video, the sound of video, the look of video.

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Figure 10.1

Figure 10.1

Björk and dancers in It's Oh So Quiet, staged like a production number in a Hollywood musical. Graphics identify both the video and the broadcaster, in this case MuchMusic.

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Figure 10.2

A bird's-eye shot from It's Oh So Quiet, like an overhead angle in a Busby Berkeley film.

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Figure 10.3

Tom Jones within an animated, graphic setting, in Kiss.

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Figure 10.4

Peter Gabriel's head, pixilated against an animated, constantly changing background, in Sledgehammer.

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Figure 10.5

A figure in a window and a U.S. flag in Don Henley's The End of the Innocence, modelled on the imagery of Robert Frank.

Figure 10.6

Figure 10.6

Madonna superimposed on the futuristic setting of Express Yourself, echoing Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis.

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Figure 10.7

In Ironic, Alanis Morissette adjusts her rear-view mirror and sees...

Figure 10.8

Figure 10.8

...another Alanis, listening in the back seat,...

Figure 10.9

Figure 10.9

...a point-of-view figure completed with a closer angle on the first Alanis.

Figure 10.10

Figure 10.10

Alanis 2 picks up the song, and the direct view of her, no longer in a mirror...

Figure 10.11

Figure 10.11

...is completed with a shot of Alanis 1, looking back...

Figure 10.12

Figure 10.12

...at Alanis 2. She looks along the back seat toward the driver's side...

Figure 10.13

Figure 10.13

...where there's a third Alanis, who sings the next verse.

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Figure 10.14

In Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinéad O'Connor looks directly into the camera, and implicitly at the viewer, in a nearly unbroken stare...

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Figure 10.15

...punctuated occasionally when she momentarily glances off-camera.

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