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

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Introduction : the future of film sound studies / Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda -- The phenomenology of film sound : Robert Bresson's A man escaped / John Belton -- The proxemics of the mediated voice / Arnt Maasø -- Almost silent : the interplay of sound and silence in contemporary cinema and television / Paul Théberge -- The sounds of "silence" : dolby stereo, sound design, and The silence of the lambs / Jay Beck -- Sonic imagination, or, film sound as a discursive construct in Czech culture of the transitional period / Petr Szczepanik -- Sounds of the city : Alfred Newman's "street scene" and urban modernity / Matthew Malsky -- Film and the Wagnerian aspiration : thoughts on sound design and the history of the senses / James Lastra -- Asynchronous documentary : Buñuel's Land without bread / Barry Mauer -- "We'll make a Paderewski of you yet!" Acoustic reflections in The 5,000 fingers of Dr. T / Nancy Newman -- Paul Sharit's cinematics of sound / Melissa Ragona -- "Every beautiful sound also creates an equally beautiful picture" : color music and Walt Disney's Fantasia / Clark Farmer -- "A question of the ear" : listening to Touch of evil / Tony Grajeda -- "Sound sacrifices" : the post modern melodramas of World War II / Debra White-Stanley -- Real fantasies : Connie Stevens, Silencio, and other sonic phenomena in Mulholland Drive / Robert Miklitsch -- Selling spectacular sound : dolby and the unheard history of technical trademarks / Paul Grainge -- (S)lip-sync : punk rock narrative film and postmodern musical performance / David Laderman -- Criitcal hearing and the lessons of Abbas Kiarostami's Close-up / David T. Johnson -- Rethinking point of audition in The cell / Anahid Kassabian.

"As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, 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. Lowering the Boom also analyzes how shifting modulation of the spoken word in cinema results in variations in audience interpretation. Introducing new methods of thinking about the interaction of sound and music in films, this volume also details avant-garde film sound, which is characterized by a distinct break from the narratively based sound practices of mainstream cinema. This interdisciplinary, global approach to the theory and history of film sound opens the eyes and ears of film scholars, practitioners, and students to film's true audio-visual nature." -- tomado de la contraportada.