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TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF MUSIC VIDEO: LADY GAGA – TELEPHONE FT.

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MUSICAL GENRE•Dance genre helps to gather an understand of the types of conventions which are needed to create the type of effect in which the people watching are expecting.

VOYEURISM• Shoe represent femanitiy

VOYEURISM CONTINUED

• Close-up shots of the female body

VOYEURISM CONTINUED

• CCTV – the people are being watched 24/7

STAR PERSONA• Unique and bizarre costumes

INTERTEXTUALITY• Coco Cola Cans

• Virgin Mobile

VISUALS & LYRICS• Telephone

PACE OF EDITING & MUSIC

• The pace of the editing has coincided with the pace of the music video to help create the effect of us the view actually physically been their. This is helped by many frequent cuts, cut on the beat