The media swirl : politics, audiovisuality, and aesthetics / Carol Vernallis.

"In The Media Swirl, longtime music video scholar Carol Vernallis focuses on brief audiovisual media-heightened film segments, music videos, trailers, commercials, TikTok, Instagram, and political advertising and newscasts-to provide a toolkit for citizens wanting to participate in our moment. The b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vernallis, Carol (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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Physical Description:ix 445 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Partying in The Great Gatsby : Baz Luhrmann's audiovisual sublime
  • Shattered pleasures : Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction
  • Beyoncé's overwhelming opus; or, the past and future of music video
  • Avant-gardists and the lure of pop music
  • Beyoncé's Lemonade : she dreams in both worlds / Carol Vernallis, Lisa Perrott, and Holly Rogers
  • Tracing the Carters through the galleries : "APES**T/APESHIT" and the Louvre
  • Storytelling on the ledge : Lady Gaga and Jonas Åkerlund's "Paparazzi"
  • How to analyze music videos : Beyoncé and Melina Matsoukas's "Pretty Hurts"
  • Dave Meyers's Moments of Audiovisual Bliss
  • Janelle Monáe's "You Make Me Feel" and Anderson .Paak with Kendrick Lamar's "Tints" : Getting Up in My [Rearview] Mirror
  • Who needs music documentaries when there's TikTok and Carpool Karaoke?
  • TikTok and costume-drama mashups on YouTube
  • The art of color grading / Carol Vernallis, Jonathan Leal, Eric Weidt, and Aubrey Woodiwiss
  • Music video directors, production houses, and the media swirl
  • Music video's multisensory
  • Tracing the asset : humanistic and quantitative approaches to cybercrime film trailers (Snowden and Bourne)
  • New technologies, social justice, and the future in Beyoncé's audiovisual albums
  • Fox News, COVID-19, brief media aesthetics, and historical resonances.