Experiencing music video aesthetics and cultural context

I. Theory: -- Telling and not telling -- Editing -- Actors -- Settings -- Props and costumes -- Interlude : space, color, texture, and time -- Lyrics -- Musical parameters -- Connections among music, image, and lyrics -- Analytical methods -- -- II. Analyses: -- The aesthetics of music video : an analysis of Madonna's "Cherish" -- Desire, opulence, and musical authority : the relation of music and image in Prince's "Gett off" -- Peter Gabriel's elegy for Anne Sexton : image and music in "Mercy St."