Popular Music And The New Auteur Visionary Filmmakers After Mtv

Music videos widened the creative vocabulary of filmmaking, starting with the launch of MTV in 1981, and continuing through the expansion of cable TV and the proliferation of the PC and of digital video. This study looks at seven visionary directors, most of them American, who have allowed music-video-induced changes to infiltrate their feature films, and defines these filmmakers' relation to the soundtrack as their key authorial gesture.