Carol Vernallis, Holly Rogers and Lisa Perrott are happy to announce the third book in our Bloomsbury series, *New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/new-approaches-to-sound-music-and-media/>* . ( https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/new-approaches-to-sound-music-and-media/ ) In* Resonant Matter <https://www.amazon.com/Resonant-Matter-Promise-Hospitality-Approaches/dp/150134367X>, *Lutz Koepnick considers contemporary sound and installation art as a unique laboratory of hospitality amid inhospitable times. Inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-channel video installation *The Visitors *(2012), the book explores resonance-the ability of objects to be affected by the vibrations of other objects-as a model of art's fleeting promise to make us coexist with things strange and other. In a series of nuanced readings, Koepnick follows the echoes of distant, unexpected, and unheard sounds in twenty-first century art to reflect on the attachments we pursue to sustain our lives and the walls we need to tear down to secure possible futures. The book's nine chapters approach *The Visitors *from ever-different conceptual angles while bringing it into dialogue with the work of other artists and musicians such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Guillermo Galindo, Mischa Kuball, Philipp Lachenmann, Alvien Lucier, Teresa Margolles, Carsten Nicolai, Camille Norment, Susan Philipsz, David Rothenberg, Juliana Snapper, and Tanya Tagaq. With this book, Koepnick situates resonance as a vital concept of contemporary art criticism and sound studies. His analysis encourages us not only to expand our understanding of the role of sound in art, of sound art, but to attune our critical encounter with art to art's own resonant thinking. +++ We’d like to share that Bloomsbury is offering 10-20% off book titles. Please feel free to send Holly, Lisa, or me proposals for manuscripts and collected volumes. Below are descriptions of the first two books in our series. We hope you’ll check them out. *Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics* <https://www.amazon.com/Transmedia-Directors-Music-Sound-Approaches/dp/1501339273/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Transmedia+Directors%3A+Artistry%2C+Industry+and+New+Audiovisual+Aesthetics&qid=1618265106&s=books&sr=1-1>, edited by Carol, Holly and Lisa, focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet. Working in the age of media convergence, today's impresarios project a distinctive style that points toward a new contemporary aesthetics. The media they engage with enrich their practices – through film and television (with its potential for world-building and sense of the past and future), music video (with its audiovisual aesthetics and rhythm), commercials (with their ability to project a message quickly) and the internet (with its refreshed concepts of audience and participation), to larger forms like restaurants and amusement parks (with their materiality alongside today's digital aesthetics). These directors encourage us to reassess concepts of authorship, assemblage, transmedia, audiovisual aesthetics and world-building. Transmedia Directors weaves together insights about artist-practitioners' collaborative processes as well as strategies for composition, representation, subversion and resistance. Directors and practitioners discussed include Wes Anderson, Michael Bay, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Barry Jenkins, Bong Joon-ho, David Lynch and Lars von Trier; musicians and music-video/film directors David Bowie, Jess Cope, Dave Meyers, Emil Nava, Sigur Rós, and Floria Sigismondi; and Instagram impresario Jay Versace. In *Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video* <https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Mediations-Philippine-Prison-Approaches/dp/1501331531>, Áine Mangaoang explores the 2007 event when an unlikely troupe of 1500 Filipino prisoners became Internet celebrities for their YouTube video of Michael Jackson's ground-breaking hit 'Thriller.' Taking this spectacular dance as a point of departure, Dangerous Mediations explores the disquieting development of prisoners performing punishment to a global, online audience. Combining analysis of this YouTube video with first-hand experiences from fieldwork in the Philippine prison, Áine Mangaoang investigates a wide range of interlocking contexts surrounding this user-generated text to reveal how places of punishment can be transformed into spaces of spectacular entertainment, leisure, and penal tourism. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the College of Communication and Information Sciences, the University of Alabama: https://cis.ua.edu