ERIC Number: ED294553
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Publication Date: 1986-Jul
Pages: 20
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Music Videos: On Reality and Representation.
Tee, Ernie
Music videos from the past few years have become a prominent phenomenon in our culture. They are critically compared by a small or large section of the public with the structures of, and relations within, social reality. These videos are considered to portray real situations that are, according to the standards of western culture, severely condemned, based on an attitude that sees a direct link between the events of daily reality and their depiction in the music video. However, the critical questions really are the extent to which the images of music videos have the power to make a representation, have any relationships with the events of reality, or have the ability to portray these events. The analysis and reception of music videos present a paradox, i.e., the video image and its "reality effect" versus music videos, which are concerned with the manipulation, transformation, and reversing of the analogous image, using refined animation and computer techniques to efface the boundaries and separations used in films and television. In formulating a criticism of music videos, new approaches should be used that are adapted to the videos as the objects of analysis; music videos challenge the critic to forget reality altogether and to eliminate every representative activity which should refer to it. (17 references) (CGD)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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