Popular music and the new auteur : visionary filmmakers after MTV
Ashby, Arved MarkContributor
Music videos widened the creative vocabulary of filmmaking, starting with the launch of MTV in 1981, and continuing through the expansion of cable TV and the proliferation of the PC and of digital video. This study looks at seven visionary directors, most of them American, who have allowed music-video-induced changes to infiltrate their feature films, and defines these filmmakers' relation to the soundtrack as their key authorial gesture.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Music videos widened the creative vocabulary of filmmaking, starting with the launch of MTV in 1981, and continuing through the expansion of cable TV and the proliferation of the PC and of digital video. This study looks at seven visionary directors, most of them American, who have allowed music-video-induced changes to infiltrate their feature films, and defines these filmmakers' relation to the soundtrack as their key authorial gesture.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2014).
Motion picture music
Popular music in motion pictures
Music
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Music History & Criticism, Vocal