Resistance Gazes in Recent Music Videos

Osborn, Brad

doi:10.5406/musimoviimag.14.2.0051

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Research Article| July 01 2021

Resistance Gazes in Recent Music Videos

Brad Osborn

BRAD OSBORN is associate professor of music theory and affiliated faculty in American Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the sole author of Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead (Oxford, 2017) and Interpreting Music Videos: Popular Music in the Post-MTV Era (Routledge, 2021), and is coauthor, along with Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman, for the 6th edition of American Popular Music (Oxford, 2021). Brad’s research on music videos is published in the journals Perspectives of New Music and Music & Science, and the edited collection Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry, and New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2020).

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Music and the Moving Image (2021) 14 (2): 51–67.

https://doi.org/10.5406/musimoviimag.14.2.0051

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A number of recent music videos by women subvert the male gaze (Mulvey) through a number of techniques I construe as “resistance gazes.” These videos subvert the hypersexualization, infantilization, objectification, and victimization regularly seen in music videos using imagery that resonates with broader cultural movements such as #metoo and #timesup.

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