Knoblauch, Tuma, and Schnettler present students, academics, and researchers with an overview of contemporary research and practice in video analysis, covering the subject using a variety of methodological approaches. The authors have organized the main body of their text in eight chapters devoted to the development and history of visual analysis, specific features and types of audiovisual data, an overview of the methodological approaches and fields of video analysis, and other related subjects. Hubert Knoblauch and Ren<e> Tuma are faculty members of the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Bernt Schnettler is a faculty member of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)