Medium Cool

"This lively collection brings music video studies up to date and expands its analytical horizons. One of the book's great strengths is the methodological clarity of the articles assembled here, making this a very useful collection for teaching purposes. Even more impressively, this book moves beyond MTV in several important directions. It charts the international circulation of music video, provides background on understudied historical ancestors of the video clip, and introduces readers to emerging genres of audiovisual expression. This volume will be the new standard work on music video."--Will Straw, author of "Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America"