- Introduction
- Kaplan, film and image
- Goodwin, sound and image
- Madonna and issues of gender
- Technology and issues of gender
- In conclusion...
- In what ways has the use of pop music in films helped integrate the otherwise separate artforms of film and music video? (1996)
- The development of the synchronization of sound and image
- Material Girl
(real media) (windows media)
- Dancing in the Distraction Factory (Andrew Goodwin)
- Rocking Around the Clock
(E Ann Kaplan) - Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader
(Frith/Goodwin/Grossberg, eds.) - The Madonna Connection
Cathy Switchenberg, ed.)
Of the existing research into music video, there is ample information on the role of the music, though it is hard to find possibly because of a lack of understanding of how sound and image combine successfully (the use of Madonna's Material Girl demonstrates this), a danger of applying film theory to music video. Andrew Goodwin's book Dancing in the Distraction Factory is therefore a groundbreaking book in its discarding of much of the previous research. Goodwin attempts successfully to disagree with writers who claim that image is of utmost importance in music video, and shows how image varies from merely supporting the text, to creating a mood or relaying a message.
Goodwin's thorough approach to music video analysis, his commitment to his theories and his disproving of previous theories makes his research welcome, and will continue to be a valuable reference work to future writings on pop music video.
Bibliography/Research
- Andrew Goodwin Dancing in the Distraction Factory (Routledge, 1993)
- ed. Frith/Goodwin/Grossberg Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader (Routledge 1993)
- E. Anne Kaplan Rocking Around the Clock: MTV, Postmodernism and Consumer Culture (Routledge, 1987)
- Cathy Switchenberg The Madonna Connection (Westview, 1993)
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