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Slide Notes

Presentation [Sonny Chen]

Published on Nov 19, 2015

Raitson & Watson Intro

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

INTRO

Music Video and the Politics of Representation

"...music
video as a kind of throwaway art"

music videos have a commercial agenda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldVqGcizNh0

Music videos as secondary products to the track itself and consumer products

For music videos are not simply advertisements, they are both promo and product

on camp

SUSAN SONTAG

Ariana Grande - Break Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eRzOYhLuw

aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its ridiculousness to the viewer

Qualities of Camp

Good because it's awful

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

simulacrum & hyperreality

Orders of Simulation

Prison

Photo by mr172

Disneyland

Photo by Randy Pertiet

So how does this relate to music videos?

Not sure.

But let's figure it out.

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