The Media Swirl
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The Media Swirl

Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Media Swirl

Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics

About this book

From fan-generated content on TikTok to music videos, the contemporary media landscape is becoming ever more vast, spectacular, and intense. In The Media Swirl Carol Vernallis examines short-form audiovisual media—BeyoncĂ©'s Lemonade, brief sequences from Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, TikTok challenges, YouTube mashups, commercials, and many other examples—to offer ways of understanding digital media. She analyzes music videos by BeyoncĂ©, Lady Gaga, Janelle MonĂĄe, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, and others to outline how sound and image enhance each other and shape a viewer's mood. Responding to today's political-media landscape through discussions of Fox News and Presidential inaugurations, Vernallis shows how a media literacy that exceeds newscasts and campaign advertising is central to engaging with the democratic commons. Forays into industry studies, neuroscience, and ethics also inform her readings. By creating our own content and knowing what corporations, the wealthy, and the government do through media, Vernallis contends, we can create a more just world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. A Note on the Cover
  5. Introduction
  6. I. Post-Classical Cinema at the Limit
  7. II. Music Video and the Art-Video Border
  8. III. Music Video’s Late Late Style
  9. IV. Audiovisual Aesthetics Online
  10. V. New Modes of Analysis: Industry
  11. VI. New Modes of Analysis: Neuroscience
  12. VII. New Modes of Analysis: Politics and Vernacular Culture
  13. Afterword
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index