Virgin Media Shorts

Worth viewing

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/

http://www.thereel.net/news/2012-09/654

http://www.bfi.org.uk/live/subjects/30

Also check out mediaknowall

http://mediaknowall.com/blog/

Do follow petesmediablog

http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/  it's fab

Pom pom!

originating from

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamandjoe/2009/10/pompom.shtml

Everybody hurts - Bug Bites

see -

http://skyatlantic.sky.com/bug-bites-our-favourite-videos/bug-bites-everybody-hurts-rem

are you watching?

WEEK TWO - FURTHER READING

WEEK TWO - FURTHER READING

Andrew Goodwin, Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture (Routledge 1992)

Lara M. Schwartz, Making Music Videos: Everything You Need to Know from the Best in the Business,

Laura Mulvey, Visual and Other Pleasures (Language, Discourse, Society) 

The Work of Director Chris Cunningham - DVD & Book

Roland Barthes: Image, Music, Text

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13270483/Barthes-ImageMusicText

Laura Mulvey (Author) tHE

› Visit Amazon's Laura Mulvey Page

Old article, but relevant pop promos for research

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/22/new-music-promo-collection

50 moments that shaped pop history - Guardian article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/may/02/popandrock

Useful article for Y13 ...

Fifty years of pop

Rock'n'roll has come a long way in the half-century since Elvis first stepped up to the microphone at Sun Studios. Here we choose 50 moments that shaped popular musical history - and in the process changed our lives ..

 

Key point - 

 

1981
The launch of MTV
The pivotal moment when the pop video became as important as the pop single. The first television channel devoted totally to music, MTV has grown into a global brand as all-pervasive as Coca-Cola or Nike, colonising and dulling the collective pop consciousness with the tyranny of the rotation play.