Faces without interiority: Music video’s reinvention of the portrait
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Faces without interiority: Music video’s reinvention of the portrait
Original language description
No matter how contemporary music videos differ across genres, aesthetic styles, and production background, they usually focus on the performer’s face. Exploring its opacity and agency, this essay argues that contemporary music video production replaces the face as an expression of the subject’s interiority and identity with a media-affective interface whose main function is to amplify the video’s work of audiovisual forms, performative mechanisms, and atmosphere. Through a close reading of the hip-hop video Chum by Earl Sweatshirt (dir. Hiro Murai, 2012), I demonstrate how it generates the face as an audiovisual screen that absorbs, intensifies, and gives rhythm to both the moving images and sounds. Such desubjectification opens a way to rethink portraiture within the music video genre as a media operation undermining the traditional notions of representation, interiority, and identity in favor of unfolding its technological and affective links between sounds, moving images, and lyrics.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
World Literature Studies
ISSN
1337-9275
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
55-68
UT code for WoS article
000507662900005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85077883011