Media Swirl

Carol Vernallis is an Affiliated Researcher at Stanford University, author of Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema and Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context, and coeditor of, most recently, Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision.

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• Acknowledgments  xiA Note on the Cover  xiiiIntroduction  1I. Post-Classical Cinema at the Limit1. Partying in The Great Gatsby: Baz Luhrmann’s Audovisual Sublime  272. Shattered Pleasures: Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction  48II. Music Video and the Art-Video Border3. BeyoncÉ’s Overwhelming Opus; or, the Past and Future of Music Video  714. Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music  975. BeyoncÉ’s Lemonade: She Dreams in Both Worlds (Carol Vernallis, Lisa Perrot, and Holly Rogers) 1226. Tracing the Carters through the Galleries: “APES**T/APESHIT” and the Louvre 1387. Storytelling on the Ledge: Lady Gaga and Jonas Åkerlund’s “Paparazzi”  154III. Music Video’s Late Late Style8. How to Analyze Music Videos: BeyoncÉ and Melina Matsoukas’s “Pretty Hurts”  1759. Dave Meyer’s Moments of Audiovisual Bliss  19610. Janelle MonÁe’s “You Make Me Feel” and Anderson.Paak with Kendrick Lamar’s “Tints”: Getting Up in My [Rearview] Mirror  211IV. Audiovisual Aesthetics Online11. Who Needs Music Documentaries When There’s TikTok and Carpool Karaoke?  23112. TikTok and Costume-Drama Mashups on YouTube  247V. New Modes of Analysis: Industry13. The Art of Color Grading (Carol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, Eric Weldt, and Aubrey Woodiwiss)  26514. Music Video Directors, Production Houses, and the Media Swirl  290VI. New Modes of Analysis: Neuroscience15. Music Video’s Multisensory  30716. Tracing the Asset: Humanistic and Quantitative Approaches to Cybercrime Film Trailers (Snowden and Bourne)  319VII. New Modes of Analysis: Politics and Vernacular Culture17. New Technologies, Social Justice, and the Future in BeyoncÉ’s Audiovisual Albums  33518. Fox News, COVID-19, Brief Media Aesthetics, and Historical Resonances  356Afterword  369Notes  373Bibliography  403Index  429