Experiencing Music Video - Aesthetics and Cultural Context : Aesthetics and Cultural Context

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix I THEORY 1 Telling and Not Telling 3(24) 2 Editing 27(27) 3 Actors 54(19) 4 Settings 73(26) 5 Props and Costumes 99(10) 6 Interlude: Space, Color, Texture, and Time 109(28) 7 Lyrics 137(19) 8 Musical Parameters 156(19) 9 Connections Among Music, Image, and Lyrics 175(24) 10 Analytical Methods 199(10) II ANALYSES 11 The Aesthetics of Music Video: An Analysis of Madonna's "Cherish" 209(27) 12 Desire, Opulence, and Musical Authority: The Relation of Music and Image in Prince's "Gett Off" 236(14) 13 Peter Gabriel's Elegy for Anne Sexton: Image and Music in "Mercy St." 250(35) Afterword 285(6) Notes 291(32) Bibliography 323(6) Index 329