The Oxford handbook of new audiovisual aesthetics / edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / John Richardson and Claudia Gorbman -- Theoretical pressure points. Lawrence Kramer: Classical music for the posthuman condition -- Michel Chion: The audio-logo-visual and the sound of languages in recent film -- Nicholas Cook: Beyond music: mashup, multimedia mentality, and intellectual property -- Anahid Kassabian: The end of diegesis as we know it? -- Steven Connor: Sounding out film narrative, genre, meaning: changing times, changing practices. Robynn J. Stilwell: Audio-visual space in an era of technological convergence -- Annette Davison: Title Sequences for contemporary television serials -- Carter Burwell: No country for old music -- Janet K. Halfyard: Cue the big theme? the sound of the superhero -- Michael Chanan: Video speech in Latin America -- Animated sounds. Daniel Goldmark: Pixar and the animated soundtrack -- Randy Thom: Notes on sound design in contemporary animated films -- Lisa Perrott: Zig Zag: re-animating Len Lye as improvised theatrical performance and immersive visual music -- Musical moments and transformations. Caryl Flinn: The mutating musical -- Ying Xiao: Chinese rock 'n ' roll film and Cui Jian on screen -- John Richardson: The neosurrealist metamusical: Tsai's The wayward cloud -- Philip Brophy: Parties in your head: from the acoustic to the psycho-acoustic -- Emerging audiovisual forms: music video and beyond. Carol Vernallis: Music video's second aesthetic -- Stan Hawkins: Aesthetics and hyperembodiment in pop videos: Rihanna's "Umbrella" -- Paula Hearsum & Ian Inglis: The emancipation of music video: YouTube and the cultural politics of supply and demand -- Mathias Bonde Korsgaard: Music video transformed -- Video Art. Holly Rogers: "Betwixt and between" worlds: spatial and temporal liminality in video -- Art-music. Maureen Turim and Michael Walsh: Sound events: innovation in projection and installation -- Gaming. Rob Bridgett: Contextualizing game audio aesthetics -- Karen Collins: Implications of interactivity: What does it mean for sound to be "Interactive"? -- Mark Kerins: Multi-channel gaming aesthetics of interactive surround -- Expanded soundtracks. Michel Chion: Sensory aspects of contemporary cinema -- Jeff Smith: The sound of intensified continuity -- K.J. Donnelly: Paratexts of the audio-visual: paratexts of the audio-visual soundtrack -- Extensions beyond the film. Susanna Välimäki: The audiovisual construction of transgender identity in Transamerica -- Meri Kytö: Soundscapes of Istanbul in Turkish film soundtracks -- Charles Kronengold: Audiovisual objects, multisensory people and the intensified ordinary in Hong Kong action films -- Audiovisuality in daily life. Philip Auslander: sound and vision: the audio/visual economy of musical performance -- Joseph Lanza: foreground flatland -- Michael Bull: Remaking the urban: the audio-visual aesthetics of ipod use -- Helmi Järviluoma and Noora Vikman: On soundscape methods and audiovisual sensibility -- Mariko Hara and Tia Denora: Leaving something to the imagination: "seeing" new places through a musical lens.