Music Video Auteurs, Music Genres and the End of MTV: Surveillance, Discrete Programming, Reality Shows

Saul Austerlitz, "Visions of a Youth Culture" + "Spike and Michel" from Money For Nothing: A History of the Music Video from The Beatles to The White Stripes (Continuum, 2008)

Roger Beebe, "Paradoxes of Pastiche: Spike Jonze, Hype Williams, and the Race of the Postmodern Auteur" from Beebe & Middleton (eds), Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones (Duke, 2007)

You can find a treasure trove of AUTEUR based organized video playlists here.

Individual auteurs are linked below. The "Spike and Michel" of Saul Austerlitz's chapter above are Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry.

Spike Jonze
Michel Gondry
Chris Cunningham

Hype Williams 
Paul Hunter

The TV Show That Ate Times Square

How the original Total Request Live created the boy-band boom, saved MTV (for a while), and filled midtown with screaming teenagers.

"Inside Total Request Live: MTV's Hottest Program for Teens" from PBS Frontline, 2001