Lowering the Boom Critical Studies in Film Sound

Name: Lowering the Boom Critical Studies in Film Sound
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ISBN: 9780252075322

ISBN-10: 0252075323

ISBN-13: 9780252075322

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jay Beck, Tony Grajeda, John Belton, Clark Farmer, Paul Grainge

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100

Paul Grainge is an assistant professor in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Future of Film Sound Studies




Theorizing Sound



The Phenomenology of Film Sound: Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped




The Proxemics of the Mediated Voice




Almost Silent: The Interplay of Sound and Silence in Contemporary Cinema and Television




The Sounds of "Silence": Dolby Stereo, Sound Design, and The Silence of the Lambs




Historicizing Sound



Sonic Imagination; or, Film Sound as a Discursive Construct in Czech Culture of the Transitional Period




Sounds of the City: Alfred Newman's "Street Scene" and Urban Modernity




Film and the Wagnerian Aspiration: Thoughts on Sound Design and the History of the Senses




Sound and Genre



Asynchronous Documentary: Bunuel's Land without Bread




"We'll Make a Paderewski of You Yet!": Acoustic Reflections in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T




Paul Sharits's Cinematics of Sound




"Every Beautiful Sound Also Creates an Equally Beautiful Picture": Color Music and Walt Disney's Fantasia




Film Sound and Cultural Studies



"A Question of the Ear": Listening to Touch of Evil




"Sound Sacrifices": The Postmodern Melodramas of World War II




Real Fantasies: Connie Stevens, Silencio, and Other Sonic Phenomena in Mulholland Drive




Case Studies of Film Sound



Selling Spectacular Sound: Dolby and the Unheard History of Technical Trademarks




(S)lip-Sync: Punk Rock Narrative Film and Postmodern Musical Performance




Critical Hearing and the Lessons of Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up




Rethinking Point of Audition in The Cell



Works Cited


Contributors


Index