PJ Harvey and Music Video Performance (Ashgate , Gardner..

Taylor & Francis

PJ Harvey and Music Video PerformanceAuthor(s): Abigail Gardner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472424181, 978-1472424181\nSynopsis\nPJ Harveys performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing trouble. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise disruption and think about music video lies at the heart of this book. Abigail Gardner mixes feminist theory and critical models from film and video scholarship as a rich means of interrogating Harveys work and redefining her disruptive strategies. The book presents a rethinking of the masquerade that allies it to cultural memory, precipitated by Gardners claim that Harveys performances are conversations with the past, specifically with visualised memories of archetypes of femininity. Harveys masquerades emerge from her conversations and ren.