Class Notes

Notes on why music videos are postmodern.
  • Boundary Breaking 
    • Mix of high and low culture
    • Combination of media platforms
  • Anti/Hyper Realism
    • Weird things happen to time and chronology
  • Abandonment of a Grand narrative structure
    • Big stories
    • Big Reality
    • Story Structure
    • Realism Removed
    • Breaking Realistic Structure
  • Intertextual
  • Pastiche Employed
    • Looking back nostalgically
    • Blurring Chronology
  • Andrew Goodwin
    • Amoral music videos have no morality, anything goes 
    • "Music videos create schizophrenic abandonment of rational liberal discourse which creates a nihilistic (Belief in nothing) amoral universe of representation"
  • The ultimate in consumerism
    • The artist is trying to sell an image
  • Plethora of different things that challenge meanings
  • Baudrillard
    • "An image culture an implosion of informational, a hyper real simulation"
  • Representation of women and race

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