Occult aesthetics synchronization in sound film
This book offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. The author addresses the manner in which the lock of audio and the visual exerts a synergetic effect, an aesthetic he dubs occult: a secret and esoteric effect that can dissipate in the face of an awareness of its ex...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2014]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Oxford music/media series
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization in sound film. The author addresses the manner in which the lock of audio and the visual exerts a synergetic effect, an aesthetic he dubs occult: a secret and esoteric effect that can dissipate in the face of an awareness of its existence. Drawing upon theories of sound from Sergei Eisenstein to Pierre Schaeffer to Michel Chion, the book approaches and investigates points of synchronization as something like repose, providing moments of comfort in a potentially threatening environment that can be fraught with sound and image stimuli. Correspondingly, lack of synchrony between sound and images is characterized as potentially disturbing for the audience, signaling moments of danger. From this perspective, the interplay between the two becomes the central dynamic of audio-visual culture more generally which provides a starting point for a new understanding of audio/visual interactions. This fresh approach to the topic will be discussed in theoretical and historical terms as well as elaborated through analysis of and reference to a broad selection of films and their soundtracks |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 260 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780199358816 9780199773602 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199773497.001.0001 |