Soundings : Documentary film and the listening experience /

This book draws on the lived experience of sound's capacity to move and shake us in direct, subtle and profound ways through speech, location sound, and music in documentary film. The associative, connotative and sheer emotive power of sound has the capacity to move and shake us in a myriad of...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Huddersfield : University of Huddersfield Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Geoffrey Cox
  • The promotional imagination. Stories from a stay at the Arena Hotel / Will L Finch
  • Weave me a rainbow : 'the march, the march of colour and pattern' : music and cinematography at the service of the creative promotion of the 1960s Scottish woollen industry / Geoffrey Cox
  • Sonicules
  • designing drugs with sound : approaches to sound design for film, audiovisual performance and interactive sonification / Radoslaw Rudnicki and Jude Brereton
  • Foregronding the aesthetic : strategies and practices. Auralising action space : channelling a sense of play in documentary sound design / Simon Connor
  • 'The film looks like how Ornette sounds' : Shirley Clarke's music documentary Ornette : made in America / Rosa Nogués
  • Progress music / James Bulley
  • Creative use of voice in non-fiction narrative film : an examination of the work Peter Mettler / Lars Koens and Demelza Kooij
  • Documentarty film as a backdrop for active thinking / Ana Berkenhoff
  • The unwanted sound of everything we think we want / Andrew Kötting
  • Nationhood and conflict. The 'Appassionata' sonata in A diary for Timothy / Tsung-Han Tsai
  • A 'symphony of Britain at war' or 'rhythm of workaday Britain'? : Len Lye's When the pie was opened (1941) and the musicalisation of warfare / Anita Jorge
  • Building a sonic image of a nation : Finnish documentary and propaganda films in the early decades of sound film / Kaarina Kilpiö
  • Raúl Ruiz's Now we're gonna call you brother and the problem of the people's sonic representation / Laura Jordán González and Nicolas Lema Habash
  • Afterword / John Corner.