The Oxford handbook of sound and image in digital media /

Vernallis (film and media studies, Stanford), Herzog (media studies, Queens College, CUNY), and Richardson (musicology, Univ. of Turku, Finland) stage an intersection of audiovisual studies and digital media studies. Following on the heels of The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics, ed. by Richardson, Vernallis, and Claudia Gorbman (2013), this transdisciplinary collection brings together essays on sound, music, and the moving image as instantiated in digital technologies. Though clearly more invested in audiovisual possibilities than in the digital, the range of this collection makes it difficult to place. Essays address a diverse set of texts, including film, music videos, and video games, and a helpful supplementary website offers helpful examples. Even so, the examples cluster in strange ways. As many essays feature Lady Gaga as feature Wag the Dog, and Source Code gets an entire section. A collection of this type is inevitably both too broad and too specific. For a handbook, it may be asking too much of readers looking for an introduction to discern a through-line holding these approaches together. Summing Up: Optional. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers. T. J. Welsh Loyola University New Orleans