Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199767009 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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When I read one of Carol's virtuoso treatments of moment-to-moment musical shaping of image reception, I often feel that I have barely attended to sound components at all. An insightful and original study."--Caryl Flinn, Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan "Carol Vernallis was already the best scholar of music video, and I've waited eagerly for this new book. Vernallis guides us through music video, YouTube, and digital cinema, tackling the rewards and challenges of their mutually-influencing 'accelerated aesthetic'. "Unruly Media is ambitious in scope yet is written with a lightness of touch. Her jazzy prose has an exultant, frequently hallucinatory vividness that takes you all the way in to whatever experience she's describing. The first study that views digita
YouTube's brief, low-res clips encompass many forms and foreground reiteration, graphic values and affective intensity. These three media are riven by one another: a trajectory from YouTube through music video to the new digital cinema reveals commonalities, especially in the realms of rhythm, texture and form. This is the first book to account for the current audiovisual landscape across medium and platform, and it demonstrates that attending equally to soundtrack and image reveals how these media work and how they both mirror and shape our experience.. Music video becomes more than a way of selling songs. Post-classical cinema, with its multi-plot narratives and flashy style, fragments under the influence of audiovisual numbers and music-video-like sync. This audiovisual turn calls for new forms of attention. Unruly Media argues that we are the crest of a new international style in which sonic and visual parameters become heightened and accelerated
I might have known things would be bad when the first sentence of the introduction contained both Majel Connery This could be the most poorly-edited academic press book I have ever run across. I might have known things would be bad when the first sentence of the introduction contained both a word repetition and a misplaced period. ("I love the media swirl: its accelerating aesthetics. mingled media" There are dozens of instances of repeated sentences (search for how many times Vernallis makes the claim that the "Evolution of Dance" dancer seems to be animated by "Mexican jumping beans" or that the parents from the "Charlie Bit My Finger" video must have "
She teaches Film and Media Studies at Stanford University.. Carol Vernallis is the author of Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context (2004) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013)