>This doesn't have much to do with music videos, and you may already >know this, but David Marc, in his book Demographic Vistas, does >a Brechtian analysis of The Beverly Hillbillies. Likewise, Denise >Kervin, in an article entitled "Ambivalent Pleasure from Married >...With Children," applies the concepts to that sitcom. Thanks, Matt. I'm familiar with DEMOGRAPHIC VISTAS, but not Kervin's piece. I'll have to look into it. Actually, I'm not so sure that TV can be Brechtian. It's already so fragmented and disrupted, and direct address (TV news spoken directly to you; car ads shouting in your face) is so common, that conventional Brechtian devices would have no impact. Plus, it's especially tricky to classify comedy as Brechtian--though, of course, Brecht used comedy for his own disruptive purposes. When Dobie Gillis or Parker Lewis or Ernie Kovacs or George Burns breaks through the fourth wall the disruptive potential of such an act is recuperated within the traditions of comedy. What would be truly Brechtian, in my view, would be a DRAMATIC series that revealed its own devices. This is what Godard was able to achieve in his films, starting with VIVRE SA VIE. I see some possible potential for this in music video, too--though there, also, the tradition of direct address and non-narrative musical performance complicates the issue.