Carol Vernallis
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Audiovisual Studies
Dear Tim, I much enjoyed your post and look forward to reading your dissertation. Studying the development of dance in teen pics might help answer the question of how much the music video, the musical, commercials, horror films, iPod culture, and the rest ... -
Musical or Music Video?
Dear Beth, Thanks for your post on Dancer in the Dark- it’s one of my favorite musical numbers. I think your examples shore up my argument: once clips appear on YouTube, we have a hard time saying what genre they came from, and we can no longer find the b ... -
Music Video and the Audiovisual Turn
Dear Tanine, Thank you for your thoughtful comments. Music video's resurgence is due to many factors, including increased availability and bigger budgets. Today clips are dispersed across a number of commercial websites (Vevo, Hulu, Launch, MTV, Pitc ... -
Music Video and the Audiovisual Turn
Dear John- Charting the relation between independent and experimental art and music video would be a great project. In the 80s MTV and the record companies intentionally sought out artists to make videos. I heard that was how Matt Mahurin and Robert Longo ... -
Today’s music videos showcase
Today's music videos showcase sophisticated narratives. Sigismondi’s “ET” has a density of causes that seems to exceed what we normally experience in a music video. Is it Kanye, the Wall-E doll, Perry, the deer, or the CD, which enables the sci-fi cr ... -
Bollywood, the West, and Cultural Exchange
Nilanjana, I much enjoyed your post. I was surprised by your claim that Bollywood song numbers are waning and that the recent ones tend to be nostalgic. When I was working on Bollywood seven or eight years ago that didn’t seem to be the case. Your reasons ... -
Bollywood, the West, and Cultural Exchange (cont'd)
It would be wonderful if someone would write a historical study of the cultural exchanges around musical numbers between India and the West. Your "Main Agar Kahoon" sequence seems to echo the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers number "Let' ...