Medium Cool : Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones

SUMARIO. Introduction ; Jason Middleton and Roger Beebe / Music video and synaesthetic possibility ; Kay Dickinson / Illustrating music : the impossible embodiments of the jukebox film ; Amy Herzog / The audio-vision of found-footage film and video ; Jason Middleton / Art/music/video.com ; Maureen Turim / Strange people, weird objects : the nature of narrativity, character, and editing in music videos ; Carol Vernallis / Dancing to a pacific beat : music video in Papua New Guinea ; Philip Hayward / Visions of a sound nation : Finnish music videos and secured otherness ; Antti-Ville Kärjä / Coming to you wherever you are : exploring the imagined communities of MuchMusic (Canada) and MTV (United States) ; Kip Pegley / Elvis from the waist up and other myths : 1950s music television and the gendering of rock discourse ; Norma Coates / Elvis goes global : aloha! Elvis live via satellite and music/tourism/television ; Lisa Parks and Melissa McCartney / Video and the theater of purity ; Warren Zanes / I'm from rags to riches : the death of Jay-Z ; Cynthia Fuchs / Paradoxes of pastiche : Spike Jonze, Hype Williams, and the race of the postmodern auteur ; Roger Beebe.