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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. Contributors are Jay Beck, John Belton, Clark Farmer, Paul Grainge, Tony Grajeda, David T. Johnson, Anahid Kassabian, David Laderman, James Lastra, Arnt Maasø, Matthew Malsky, Barry Mauer, Robert Miklitsch, Nancy Newman, Melissa Ragona, Petr Szczepanik, Paul Théberge, and Debra White-Stanley.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments   ix Introduction: The Future of Film Sound Studies   1 Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda Part 1: Theorizing Sound 1. The Phenomenology of Film Sound: Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped   23 John Belton 2. The Proxemics of the Mediated Voice   36 Arnt Maaso 3. Almost Silent: The Interplay of Sound and Silence in Contemporary Cinema and Television   51 Paul Theberge 4. The Sounds of "Silence": Dolby Stereo, Sound Design, and The Silence of the Lambs   68 Jay Beck Part II: Historicizing Sound 5. Sonic Imagination; or, Film Sound as a Discursive Construct in Czech Culture of the Transitional Period   87 Petr Szczepanik 6. Sounds of the City: Alfred Newman's "Street Scene" and Urban Modernity   105 Matthew Malsky 7. Film and the Wagnerian Aspiration: Thoughts on Sound Design and the History of the Senses   123 James Lastra Part III: Sound and Genre 8. Asynchronous Documentary: Bunuel's Land without Bread   141 Barry Mauer 9. "We'll Make a Paderewski of You Yet!": Acoustic Reflections in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T   152 Nancy Newman 10. Paul Sharits's Cinematics of Sound   171 Melissa Ragona 11. "Every Beautiful Sound Also Creates an Equally Beautiful Picture": Color Music and Walt Disney's Fantasia   183 Clark Farmer Part IV: Film Sound and Cultural Studies 12. "A Question of the Ear": Listening to Touch of Evil   201 Tony Grajeda 13. "Sound Sacrifices": The Postmodern Melodramas of World War II   218 Debra White-Stanley 14. Real Fantasies: Connie Stevens, Silencio, and Other Sonic Phenomena in Mulholland Drive   233 Robert Miklitsch Part V: Case Studies of Film Sound 15. Selling Spectacular Sound: Dolby and the Unheard History of Technical Trademarks   251 Paul Grainge 16. (S)lip-Sync: Punk Rock Narrative Film and Postmodern Musical Performance   269 David Laderman 17. Critical Hearing and the Lessons of Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up   289 David T. Johnson 18. Rethinking Point of Audition in The Cell   299 Anahid Kassabian Works Cited   307 Contributors   327 Index   331

About the Author :
Jay Beck is an assistant professor of media and cinema studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University. Tony Grajeda is an associate professor of cultural studies in the English Department at the University of Central Florida.

Review :
"An excellent collection of essays which reveals much about the state of play of soundtrack studies and offers many fresh and original insights. It will certainly be of value to students and scholars of film sound."--Music, Sound, and the Moving Image "A substantial and important book, Lowering the Boom includes work from both established scholars and emerging voices in the field and is a welcome addition to auditory culture and sound studies."--Steve J. Wurtzler, author of Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media "[Lowering the Boom reclaims] cinema as an "audiovisual" object, demonstrating conclusively that whatever the relative importance of the "audio" and "visual" parts, neither can be ignored . . . . I hope Lowering the Boom is widely read."--Jump Cut


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252056963
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Critical Studies in Film Sound
  • ISBN-10: 0252056965
  • Publisher Date: 11 Dec 2023
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 360


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