Lowering the boom : critical studies in film sound - Beck, Jay, 1966-; Grajeda, Tony, 1960- (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index.
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Keywords: Sound motion pictures; Films sonores; PERFORMING ARTS / General; Sound motion pictures; Filmvertonung; Filmanalyse; Filmvertonung; Film; Tonfilm; Filmästhetik.; Geschichte 1900-2000.