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Lowering the boom : critical studies in film sound / edited by Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press ; Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], 2008.Description: 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780252075322 (pbk.) :
  • 9780252033230 (hbk.) :
  • 9780252075322 (Paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 778.5344 BEC
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.7 .L69 2008
Contents:
Part I: Theorizing sound -- 1.The phenomenology of film sound: Robert Bresson\'s A man escaped. John Belton -- 2.The proxemics of the mediated voice. Arnt Maaso -- 3.Almost silent: the interplay of sound and silence in contemporary cinema and television. Paul The�berge -- 4.The sounds of silence: Dolby stereo, sound design, and The silence of the lambs. Jay Beck -- Part II: Historicizing sound -- 5.Sonic imagination; or, film sound as a discursive construct in Czech culture of the transitional period. Petr Szczepanik -- 6.Sounds of the city: Alfred Newman\'s Street scence and urban modernity. Matthew Malsky -- 7.Film and the Wagnerian aspiration: thoughts on sound design and the history of the senses. James Lastra -- Part III: Sound and genre -- 8.Asynchronous documentary: Bun~uel\'s Land without bread. Barry Mauer -- 9. We\'ll make a Paderewski of you yet!: acoustic reflections in The 5,000 fingers of Dr. T. Nancy Newman -- 10.Paul Sharit\'s cinematics of sound. Melissa Ragona -- 11. Every beautiful sound also creates and equally beautiful picture: color muisc and Walt Disney\'s Fantasia. Clark Farmer -- Part IV: Film sound and cultural studies -- 12.A question of the ear: listening to Touch of evil. Tony Grajeda -- 13.Sound sacrifices: the postmodern melodramas of World War II. Debra White-Stanley -- 14.Real fantasies: Connie Stevens, Silenciom and other sonic phenomena in Mulholland Drive. Robert Miklitsch -- Part V: Case studies of film sound -- 15.Selling spectacular sound: Dolby and the unheard history of technical trademarks. Paul Grainge -- 16. (S)lip-synch: Punk rock narrative film and postmodern musical performance. David Laderman -- 17.Critical hearing and the lessons of Abbas Kiarostami\'s Close-up. David T. Johnson -- 18.Rethinking point of audition in The Cell. Anahid Kassabian.
Summary: 'Lowering the Boom' addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 778.5344 BEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00213635

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Theorizing sound -- 1.The phenomenology of film sound: Robert Bresson\'s A man escaped. John Belton -- 2.The proxemics of the mediated voice. Arnt Maaso -- 3.Almost silent: the interplay of sound and silence in contemporary cinema and television. Paul The�berge -- 4.The sounds of silence: Dolby stereo, sound design, and The silence of the lambs. Jay Beck -- Part II: Historicizing sound -- 5.Sonic imagination; or, film sound as a discursive construct in Czech culture of the transitional period. Petr Szczepanik -- 6.Sounds of the city: Alfred Newman\'s Street scence and urban modernity. Matthew Malsky -- 7.Film and the Wagnerian aspiration: thoughts on sound design and the history of the senses. James Lastra -- Part III: Sound and genre -- 8.Asynchronous documentary: Bun~uel\'s Land without bread. Barry Mauer -- 9. We\'ll make a Paderewski of you yet!: acoustic reflections in The 5,000 fingers of Dr. T. Nancy Newman -- 10.Paul Sharit\'s cinematics of sound. Melissa Ragona -- 11. Every beautiful sound also creates and equally beautiful picture: color muisc and Walt Disney\'s Fantasia. Clark Farmer -- Part IV: Film sound and cultural studies -- 12.A question of the ear: listening to Touch of evil. Tony Grajeda -- 13.Sound sacrifices: the postmodern melodramas of World War II. Debra White-Stanley -- 14.Real fantasies: Connie Stevens, Silenciom and other sonic phenomena in Mulholland Drive. Robert Miklitsch -- Part V: Case studies of film sound -- 15.Selling spectacular sound: Dolby and the unheard history of technical trademarks. Paul Grainge -- 16. (S)lip-synch: Punk rock narrative film and postmodern musical performance. David Laderman -- 17.Critical hearing and the lessons of Abbas Kiarostami\'s Close-up. David T. Johnson -- 18.Rethinking point of audition in The Cell. Anahid Kassabian.

'Lowering the Boom' addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity.

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