Billie Jean

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  • Created by: Ellen.B
  • Created on: 28-12-19 16:15
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  • Billie Jean
    • First Black music video on MTV
      • Potentially a bad representation of black men
        • MJ's hair is not naturally straight
          • Makes him appropriate for the white audience
        • Wearing a full suit
          • Makes him appropriate for the white audience
    • Followed a mixed Narrative
      • Had elements many types of narrative
        • E.G Linear (Goodwin) and Fragmented Narrative as well as being a performance
          • Linear Narrative music videos were pioneered by Billie Jean
            • Also ground-breaking
    • Intertextuality within the music video
      • Wizard of Oz
      • Hard Boiled Detective
        • Notion of looking (Voyeurism)
      • Pink Panther
      • Hollywood Golden Era
      • Postmodernism
        • There is no new media
    • Uses Proppian Spheres of Action
      • E.G Hero, Villain, Donor, Helper...
    • Hip-Hop Theory (Bell Hooks)
      • Black vs. White
        • MJ vs.PI
          • Uses Proppian Spheres of Action
            • E.G Hero, Villain, Donor, Helper...
        • Anti- Multiculturalism
          • Potentially a bad representation of black men
            • MJ's hair is not naturally straight
              • Wearing a full suit
        • Post Colonial idea both within the video and surrounding it

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