Unruly Media

Unruly Media is the first book to account for the current audiovisual landscape across media and platform. It includes new theoretical models and close readings of current media as well as the oeuvre of popular and influential directors.

Carol Vernallis teaches Media Studies at Stanford University. She is 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).

- Introduction
- I. New Digital Cinema
- 1. The New Cut-Up Cinema
- 2. The Audiovisual Turn and Post-Classical Cinema
- 3. Music Video into Post-Classical Cinema
- 4. Moulin Rouge: Delirious Cinema
- 5. Music Video, Songs, Sound: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- 6. Reciprocity, Bollywood and Music Video: Mani Ratnam's Dil Se and Yuva
- II. YouTube
- 7. YouTube Aesthetics
- 8. Audiovisual Change: Viral Web Media and the Obama Campaign
- 9. Refiguring Music Video: Beyoncé's "Video Phone"
- III. Music Video
- 10. Music Video's Second Aesthetic?
- 11. Digital Style: Francis Lawrence and Dave Meyers
- 12. A Music Video Canon?
- Afterword: Accelerated Aesthetics: a New Lexicon of Time, Space and Rhythm
- Index