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British Music Videos 1966 - 2016

Genre, Authenticity and Art

By: Caston Emily Caston

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British Music Videos 1966 - 2016

Genre, Authenticity and Art

By: Caston Emily Caston

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016, identifying not only their distinctive British traits, but their parallels with British film genres and styles. By analysing the genre, craft and authorial voice of music video within the context of film and popular music, the book sheds new light on existing theoretical and historical questions about audiences, authorship, art and the creative industries. Far from being an American cultural form, the book reveals music video's roots in British and European film traditions, and suggests significant ways in which British video has impacted popular film and music culture.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474435343

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Celluloid Saviours

Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film

By: Emily Caston

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Celluloid Saviours

Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film

By: Emily Caston

In Celluloid Saviours, the author analyses a corpus of US films dating from the silent era that she calls film blanc. In these fantasy films a guardian spirit with extraordinary powers suspends the ordinary, known laws of time and space, and a main character reforms himself or herself in life-changing ways. The author argues that the historical pattern of film blanc relates to the rise and fall of liberal and reform thought in US politics, specifically to conceptions of human nature as a tabula rasa. This conception is evident both in the early feature films featuring angels such as Chaplin’s The Kid and much later examples such as the 1980s box office hit, Trading Places. She argues that this narrative tradition runs from Hollywood’s beginnings to the present day and is foreshadowed in the English ghost stories of Charles Dickens. The classic era of film blanc is epitomised in the enduringly popular film, It’s a Wonderful Life. More recent examples of narrative form analysed by Caston include The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527553418

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Celluloid Saviours

Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film

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Angels and Reform Politics in Hollywood Film

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British Music Videos 1966 - 2016

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