Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On An Academic Conversation

Abstract: In this episode Elizabeth and Karin talk about the function of black and white (monochrome/chiaroscuro) cinematography in the short films, Bad (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1987) and Stranger in Moscow (dir. Nicholas Brandt, 1996). Taking their academic essays on two of Jackson's most monochromatic short films as source material, they consider how Jackson used cinema language to communicate with his audience in a way that was both subtle and resonant. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. "Episode 4 - Michael Jackson and Monochromatic Cinematography." Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 2, no. 2 (2016). Published electronically 1/03/16. http://michaeljacksonstudies.org/the-dream-lives-on-4-black-and-white-in-bad-and-stranger-in-moscow/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 4 - Michael Jackson and Monochromatic Cinematography By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu 'This is a big contrast to the celebrated Michael Jackson, and musician, and the one who was condemned because of false allegations at that time... vilified and humiliated... I think it's a very underestimated song and short film.' - Karin Merx Stranger in Moscow: https://youtu.be/pEEMi2j6lYE Bad (Long Version): http://dai.ly/xvdho All Our References and Where to Easily Find Them 1. Karin Merx, “From Throne to Wilderness: Michael Jackson’s ‘Stranger in Moscow’ and the Foucauldian Outlaw.” The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015). 2. Elizabeth Amisu, "Bad(1987)." The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2014). 3. Jeremy Gilbert, "The Real Abstraction of Michael Jackson." In The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson, edited by Mark Fisher, 137-49: Zero Books, 2009. 4. Joseph Vogel, Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson. Sterling, 2011. 5. Michael Jackson, Moonwalk. (London: Heinemann, 1988). 6. Richard Donner, "Superman." Dovemead/Film Export A.G./International Film Productions, 1978. 7. Spike Lee, "Bad 25." Optimum Productions, 2013. 8.  Elizabeth Amisu, Willa Stillwater, Lisha McDuff, and Karin Merx. "A Look at Neo-Noir in Michael Jackson’s Short Films." (2016). Published electronically 28 January. 9. Mark Romanek, "Scream." 1995. 10. Joe Pytka, "The Way You Make Me Feel." 1987. (Full Version) 11. Black and white films today. 12. German Expressionism. Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of  ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. www.michaeljacksonstudies.org facebook.com/michaeljacksonstudies twitter.com/mjas29 instagram.com/elizawriter instagram.com/karinmerx You May Also Like:

Abstract: In this third episode, Karin and Elizabeth talk about what Michael Jackson Studies is. Going through a wide range of references, they explain how the simple act of 'Michaeling' became an area of academic study in its own right. The podcast also discusses the pioneers who started this academic conversation, and the future of the study of Michael Jackson, as an artist. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. "Episode 3 - What Is Michael Jackson Studies?", Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 2, no. 1 (2016). Published electronically 7/02/16. http://michaeljacksonstudies.org/the-dream-lives-on-3-what-s-michael-jackson-studies/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 3 - What is Michael Jackson Studies? By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu 'Most households, I'm sure in the Western world, will have a copy of Thriller there somewhere. That tells us a lot more about us than it does about Michael himself, or even his work. It tells us about what we want to consume, pay for, and what we want to have as part of our culture.' - Elizabeth Amisu All Our References and Where to Easily Find Them 1. 'Chapter 2 - A Critical Survey of Michael Jackson Studies' In The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Praeger, 2016). 2. Dr. Joseph Vogel’s pioneering MJ Studies page that inspired us to create this journal. 3. Dr. Vogel coins the term, 'MJ Studies' to describe his work. 4. Joseph Vogel, Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson. Sterling, 2011. 5. Find out about Early Modern English Literature in this video from King’s College London's English Department. 6. Michael Jackson, Moonwalk. (London: Heinemann, 1988). 7.  Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream: Poems & Reflections (London: Doubleday, 1992). 8. Elizabeth Amisu, "On Michael Jackson’s ‘Dancing the Dream’." The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 2 (2014): 3. 9. Karin Merx, "From Throne to Wilderness: Michael Jackson's 'Stranger in Moscow' and the Foucauldian Outlaw." The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015). 10. Who was Michel Foucault? 11. Michael Jackson and the number 7. 12. Malcolm Barnard, Fashion as Communication (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2002). ———, ed. Fashion Theory: An Introduction (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014). 13. James Shapiro, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (Faber, 2006) 14. Michael D. Bristol. "Shakespeare: The Myth." Chap. 29 In A Companion to Shakespeare, edited by David Scott Kastan, 489-502. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 15. Professor Sonia Massai, Reader in Shakespeare at King's College London. 16. The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607) by Francis Beaumont at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London. 17. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - the British Library. 18. 'Globe to Globe' Season at Shakespeare's Globe 2012. 19. Renegade Theatre's The Winter's Tale in Yoruba, Shakespeare's Globe. 20. Cambridge University's virtual Shakespearean theatre experience online. 21. The Library of Congress Thriller album entry by Dr. Joseph Vogel. 22. Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Michael Jackson, Inc. (Atria, 2014). 23. Kobena Mercer, "Monster Metaphors: Notes on Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller'." Screen 27, no. 1 (1986): 26-43. 24. Michele Wallace, "Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and ‘the Ecstasy of Communication’." The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 4 (2015): 2. 25. Joseph Vogel, ““I Ain’t Scared of No Sheets”: Re-Screening Black Mas...

Abstract: Where did the journal come from? Why is it here? And that all-important question, where is it going next? In the words of the King of Pop himself, 'every day create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy'. In this episode we talk about the past, the present and the future of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online.  REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. "Episode 2 - 2015 Recap: Past, Present and Future Book 1." Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 2, no. 1 (2016). Published electronically 7/01/16. http://michaeljacksonstudies.org/the-dream-lives-on-2-past-present-and-future/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 2 - 2015 Recap: Past, Present and Future Book 1 By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu 'It was in 2014 and we met on Twitter and decided that there needed to be one place where we could start to collect everything that had been written on Michael Jackson's art, specifically his body of work and I remember we started this website and we started collecting articles like crazy.' - Karin Merx. All Our References and Where to Easily Find Them 1. The first publication on The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies was 'Throwing Stones To Hide Your Hands': The Mortal Persona Of Michael Jackson' by Elizabeth Amisu. It was published on June 17th 2014, and since then the article has been read thousands of times and translated into other languages (see Footnote 2). It has also become the cornerstone chapter of an academic book called The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife (Praeger, 2016). 2. Amisu, Elizabeth. "'Arrojar Piedras Y Esconder Las Manos': La Personalidad Humana De Michael Jackson." [In Spanish]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 3. ———. "'Lanciare Sassi e Poi Nascondere le Mani': La Natura Umana Di Michael Jackson." [In Italian]. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies 1, no. 3 (2015): 4. ———. "'Throwing Stones to Hide Your Hands': The Mortal Persona of Michael Jackson." In A Companion to Michael Jackson Academic Studies I, edited by Elizabeth Amisu, 11: MJAS, 2015. 3. Watch out for Elizabeth in this video for her MA at King's College London - MA Early Modern English Literature: Text and Transmission. 4. Dr. Joseph Vogel's pioneering MJ Studies page that inspired us to create this journal. 5. Joseph Vogel, Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson. Sterling, 2011. 6. Check out our wonderful contributors, who have donated articles and essays. 7. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies | ISSN: 2452-0497. 8. What is an ISSN anyway? 9. A Companion to Michael Jackson Academic Studies I  This first ever academic companion to Michael Jackson's art is an indispensable tool for academics. Worth £25, it is available COMPLETELY FREE to subscribers to The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies. 10. Translations of MJAS articles in Italian, Spanish, and German. 11. Susan Fast, 'Chapter 4 - Difference That Exceeded Understanding: Remembering Michael Jackson(Redux)' In Death and the Rock Star (Ashgate, 2016), 45-60. 12. Joseph Vogel, ““I Ain’t Scared of No Sheets”: Re-Screening Black Masculinity in Michael Jackson’s Black or White.” Journal of Popular Music Studies 27, no. 1 (2015): 90-123. Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of  ‘A festive parade of highlights.

Abstract: In this first ever episode of Michael Jackson’s Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation, Karin and Elizabeth discuss Michael Jackson's 1991 Black or White short film, directed by John Landis, who was also the director of the Thriller short film. The discussion of Jackson's 'Panther Dance', also known as the 'Coda', leads into a conversation on whether or not the Black or White short film is art and whether Michael Jackson himself can really be considered an artist. REFERENCE AS: Merx, Karin, and Elizabeth Amisu. "Episode 1 – Was Michael Jackson an Artist?", Podcast, Michael Jackson's Dream Lives On: An Academic Conversation 1, no. 4 (2016). Published electronically 29/06/15. http://michaeljacksonstudies.org/the-dream-lives-on-an-academic-conversation/. The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies asks that you acknowledge The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies as the source of our Content; if you use material from The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies online, we request that you link directly to the stable URL provided. If you use our content offline, we ask that you credit the source as follows: “Courtesy of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies.” Episode 1 - Was Michael Jackson an Artist? By Karin Merx & Elizabeth Amisu 'Michael would put very complex compositions, very complex, challenging cinematography in his short films, and he put them in a mass context... he put them in a public context. And there's nothing more democratic than television.' - Elizabeth Amisu Black or White (Banned Version): https://youtu.be/7u-AqaLwuA8 All Our References and Where to Easily Find Them 1. 'The Panther Dance' in Black or White, dir. John Landis (1991). 2. Joseph Vogel, Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson. Sterling, 2011. 3. Joseph Vogel, "“I Ain't Scared of No Sheets”: Re-Screening Black Masculinity in Michael Jackson's Black or White." Journal of Popular Music Studies 27, no. 1 (2015): 90-123. 4. Singin' in the Rain, dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen (1952). 5. Do the Right Thing, dir. Spike Lee (1989). 6. Who were the Black Panthers? 7. Susan Fast, Dangerous. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. Chapter 3 - 'Utopia', p. 71-96. 8. Karin's academic review of Susan Fast's book, Dangerous can be found here. 9. Philosopher, Alain de Botton asks, What is Art for? Karin Merx BMus, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies, and author of  ‘A festive parade of highlights. La Grande Parade as evaluation of the museum policy of Edy De Wilde at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’. Find out more about Karin here. Elizabeth Amisu, PGCE, MA, is editor of The Journal of Michael Jackson Academic Studies and author of The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife. Find out more about Elizabeth here. www.michaeljacksonstudies.org facebook.com/michaeljacksonstudies twitter.com/mjas29 instagram.com/elizawriter instagram.com/karinmerx You May Also Like: