Roger Beebe is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the English Department at the University of Florida. He is a coeditor of Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture, also published by Duke University Press. Jason Middleton is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the English Department at the University of Rochester.
Index 345
Introduction / Jason Middleton and Roger Beebe 1
Music Video and Synaesthetic Possibility / Kay Dickinson 13
Illustrating Music: The Impossible Embodiments of the Jukebox Film / Amy
Herzog 30
The Audio-Vision of Found-Footage Film and Video / Jason Middleton
> Art/Music/Video.com / Maureen Turim 83
Strange People, Weird Objects: The Nature of Narrativity, Character, and
Editing in Music Videos / Carol Vernallis 111
Dancing to a Pacific Beat: Music Video in Papua New Guinea / Philip Hayward
152
Visions of a Sound Nation: Finnish Music Videos and Secured Otherness /
Antti-Ville Karja 174
“Coming to You Wherever You Are”: Exploring the Imagined Communities of
Muchmusic (Canada) and MTV (United States) / Kip Pegley 200
Elvis from the Waist Up and Other Myths: 1950s Music Television and the
Gendering of Rock Discourse / Norma Coates 226
Elvis Goes Global: Aloha! Elvis Live Via Satellite and
Music/Tourism/Television / Lisa Parks and Melissa McCartney 252
Video and the Theater of Purity / Warren Zanes 269
“I’m From Rags to Riches”: The Death of Jay-Z / Cynthia Fuchs 290
Paradoxes of Pastiche: Spike Jonze, Hype Williams, and the Race of the
Postmodern Auteur / Roger Beebe 303
Bibliography 329
Contributors 341
