Carol Vernallis / Stanford University

Carol Vernallis’s first book, Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context (Columbia University Press, 2004), provides a theoretical account of a genre. It is the first to articulate a theory of how music, lyrics and image can be placed in relation, and also the first to provide detailed analyses of individual videos that show the parameters of sound and image at work in a temporal flow. Unruly Media: Youtube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2013), her second book, attempts to take account of a new mediascape that is driven by intensified audiovisual relations. This book considers the techniques and strategies that are shared across the three forms of digital media it focuses on. Vernallis is lead-editor of Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2020), and The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (Oxford University Press, 2013), as well as co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (OUP, 2013). She is currently lead-editing Cybermedia: Scientists and Humanists Face the Machines (under contract with Bloomsbury), and completing her monograph, Embracing the Media Swirl: Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics. Her articles have appeared in journals including American Music, Cinema Journal, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of the Society for American Music, Music Sound and the Moving Image, Popular Music, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Screen. Videos screened internationally.