Youth and cities in the videoclip: the body as the focus

Abstract

This paper studies the representation of urban youth through media images broadcast in French and Brazilian music videos of the 2000s. In these clips for a young audience, dances, sports events and other various bodily urban elements are significant. Based on this, the study’s goal is to observe in the short musical films the way the bodies are shown, and also how they are affected by the cities. The paper seeks, thus, to study the way the society - via media - thinks and represents the urban youth culture.