Carol Vernallis on The Media Swirl: Politics, Audiovisuality and Aesthetics

This is a *pre-read* session, please read the introduction to Carol's forthcoming book AND AT LEAST ONE of the book's chapters. The introduction and book chapters are avaliable on request at gdowling [at] stanford.edu (gdowling[at]stanford[dot]edu). A light dinner will be provided.

Carol Vernallis specializes in music video and recent film; her research deals more broadly with questions of sound and image in moving media. Her first book, Experiencing Music Video (Columbia University Press), attempts to theorize the genre. Her second, Unruly Media: Youtube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema (Oxford University Press), takes account of a new mediascape driven by intensified audiovisual relations. The book considers techniques and strategies that are shared between the three forms of digital media it focuses on. She’s now working more closely with directors and other practitioners who create innovative audiovisual work across platforms and media; her third book Transmedia Directors asks about the viewer/listener’s experience of audiovisuality in today’s media-saturated, multi-platform swirl. She is also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media. She will be teaching MUSIC 202: The Art of Music Video: Practice and Analysis this Spring.