Goodwins music video analysis

- Andrew Goodwin writing in 'Dancing in the distraction factory (Routledge 1992)

1) Music vidoes demonstrategene characteristics (e.g. stage performance in rock video, dance routine.

2) There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals.

3) There is a relationship between music and visuals.

4) The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close-ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style)

5) There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within, telescopes,etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.

6) There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc.)