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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