The last 20 years have seen extensive scholarship on changing audiovisual aesthetics and the blurring boundaries between all screen media. This article draws on this scholarship and engages with critical debates around the musical genre to examine contemporary song-based screen media. While song and singing have a long history across film, television and video, the digital convergence era has engendered new types of song performance and song-based screen formats. To understand the complex connections and exchanges between different forms of singing on screen, this article develops a new evaluative and conceptual framework. I propose the term screensong to refer to audiovisual representations of singing performance across screen-based media. This article understands screensong as both a broad category of song-based screen texts, genres and formats and as a particular type of song-driven, highly commodified, audiovisual and narrative unit – the screensong – prevalent in contemporary American popular screen media.

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重新思考银幕上的歌唱：电影音乐剧、音乐电视和音乐视频中当代美国“银幕歌曲”的案例

在过去的 20 年中，我们见证了关于改变视听美学和所有屏幕媒体之间界限模糊的广泛学术研究。本文利用这一奖学金，围绕音乐流派进行批判性辩论，以研究当代基于歌曲的屏幕媒体。虽然歌曲和歌唱在电影、电视和视频领域有着悠久的历史，但数字融合时代催生了新的歌曲表演类型和基于歌曲的屏幕格式。为了理解不同形式的银幕演唱之间的复杂联系和交流，本文开发了一个新的评估和概念框架。我提议这个词屏歌指跨基于屏幕的媒体的歌唱表演的视听表现。本文将屏幕歌曲理解为基于歌曲的屏幕文本、流派和格式的广泛类别，以及一种特定类型的歌曲驱动、高度商品化、视听和叙事单元——屏幕歌曲- 在当代美国流行的屏幕媒体中普遍存在。