The Rhythm Image: Music Videos and New Audiovisual Forms

About the Author Steve Shaviro is Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA. He is the author of eleven books including Cinematic Body (1993), Post-Cinematic Affect (2010), and Digital Music Videos (2017).Carol Vernallis is Affiliated Researcher in Music at Stanford University and Visiting Professor of Music at University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Experiencing Music Video (2004) and Unruly Media (2013). She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013), and on the editorial board of The Journal of Popular Music Studies.Holly Rogers is Reader in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (2013) and editor of Music and Sound in Documentary Film (2014) and The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (2017).Lisa Perrott is Senior Lecturer and Programme Convener of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is co-editor, with Ana Cristina Mendes, of Navigating with the Blackstar: The Mediality of David Bowie (special issue of Celebrity Studies, 2019) and David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom (2019). Her publications include Time Is Out of Joint: The Transmedial Hauntology of David Bowie (2019) and Music Video's Performing Bodies: Floria Sigismondi as Gestural Animator and Puppeteer (2015). Her interests include animation, cultural studies and transmedia, with an emphasis on the relations between audio and visual media, popular music, music video and the avant-garde. Product Description Music videos play a critical role in our age of ubiquitous streaming digital media. They project the personas and visions of musical artists; they stand at the cutting edge of developments in popular culture; and they fuse and revise multiple frames of reference, from dance to high fashion to cult movies and television shows to Internet memes. Above all, music videos are laboratories for experimenting with new forms of audiovisual expression. The Rhythm Image explores all these dimensions. The book analyzes, in depth, recent music videos for artists ranging from pop superstar The Weeknd to independent women artists like FKA twigs and Dawn Richard. The music videos discussed in this book all treat the traditional themes of popular music: sex and romance, money and fame, and the lived experiences of race and gender. But they twist these themes in strange and unexpected ways, in order to reflect our entanglement with a digital world of social media, data gathering, and 24/7 demands upon our attention.