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Millennials Killed the Video Star

by: Klein, Amanda Ann, 1976- author

Publication date: 2021

Topics: MTV Networks, MTV Networks -- History, MTV Networks, Music videos, Generation Y, Popular culture -- United States, Generation Y, Music videos, Popular culture, United States

Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press

Collection: dukeuniversitydukepress; duldiversity; duke_libraries; americana

Contributor: Duke University Press

Language: English

Rights: © Duke University Press

viii, 248 pages : 24 cm

"Millennials Killed the Video Star examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from music videos and into identity-focused reality programming in the early 2000s and 2010s"--

Includes bibliographical references and index

What Killed the Video Star? -- "It's Videos, Fool": A Targeted History of MTV (1981-2004) -- "This Is the True Story . . .": The Real World and MTV's Turn to Identity (1992-) -- "She Will Always Be Known as the Girl Who Didn't Go to Paris": Can-Do and At-Risk White Girls on MTV (2004-2013) -- "If You Don't Tan, You're Pale": The Regional and Ethnic Other on MTV (2009-2013) -- "That Moment Is Here, Whether I Like It or Not": When MTV's Programming Fails (2013- -- ) -- Conclusion. -- Catfish and the Future of MTV's Reality Programming (2012-)