Bjorn Aas wrote: > And I make sure that my >students don't believe that montage was invented in 1982 by MTV. I lecture a lot on music video, and it is one of my special areas of interest. I AM surprised that many Swedish students think that music video is a modern (or postmodern) art form, not directly related to the film history past. As far as I can make out, it is DIRECTLY related to avant-garde and American underground film of the 40's to 70's. There are a lot of intertextual references that can't be ignored, and stylistic likenesses that are too close to be coincidence. I am not saying that music videos ONLY use these as influences, but the importance of a stylistic break in filmic conventions (as well as those done by other movements, like the New Wave) have helped to create a montage based very much on jump cuts and what Andrew Goodwin calls DISJUNCTURE in "Dancing in the Distraction Factory". I do disagree with a number of things he writes in the book, but it is the best one I have seen so far on music video! Cheers, BERT --------------------------------------------------------------- BERT DEIVERT Film Studies University of Karlstad E-Mail: [log in to unmask] S-651 88 Karlstad Voice: 46-54-83 81 06 SWEDEN Fax: 46-54-83 84 96 http://www.hks.se/~bertd/bertd.html --------------------------------------------------------------- ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]