... the poems, novels and short stories for quotable technological awareness, the chapter will aim to throw some light on two of his distinctive qualities as a writer: his feeling for sound, and for its effects on mind and body; and his skilful organisation of narrative matter. Key texts discussed are ‘Bare...

..., and transmedial network from an interdisciplinary perspective. Building on research from experts in the field of David Lynch studies as well as novel perspectives from young academics, this collection gathers interdisciplinary international contributions from the fields of American studies, musicology and sound...

.... It traces the transition from silent to sound film and the decline of Brunel’s career as a director of ‘A’ pictures, becoming a prolific director of quota quickies for various producers in the 1930s. With directing opportunities becoming more scarce, Brunel was forced to take other roles in production...

...This chapter continues the exploration of avant-garde intimacy in attending to Dada manifestos, sound poetry and intimate interactions with the audience of the cabaret performance. It examines a particular mode of intimacy inspiring the movement’s artistic and political ambitions: ‘Dada sought...

... is the subject of an exploration of that most modernist of narrative techniques – the epiphany. And, finally, the chapter develops a reading of the sensory matrix of Lucy Gayheart, specifically that novel’s counterpointing of sound and silence. actresses female voice Lucy Gayheart Nethersole...

...This chapter examines post-production sound techniques, specifically voice-over narration and post-synchronisation (dubbing), in badfilm. Badfilms regularly disrupt and dismantle the relationship between sound and image, drawing attention away from the diegesis to its construction...

... the so-called New Chilean cinema are able to translate perpetrator experiences as well as dictatorship and post-dictatorship repercussions that appear invisible and intangible. The toxic impact on social relations or a process of erasing historical traces are rendered perceivable in films through sound...

...This chapter continues and extends the argument of chapter 2 by considering the role of sound in modernist innovation. Beginning with the problem of sound in experimental work through Pound's writing on it, it then considers the place of sound in theosophy, and in particular sound's fundamental...

...This book examines a range of so-called ‘male’ and ‘female’ film genres in order to uncover the ways in which film sound conveys meanings about gender. The notion of genre has played a key role in the writing of this book, partly because genre and gender are frequently so inextricably linked...

... the Imitation of Life 1934 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Film Genre Diegetic Diegetic Music Melodrama Soundtrack Film Sound Gender Women’s films Weepies As modern film audiences, we are well aware of the capacity of music soundtracks to perform a multitude of functions in film. Music, whether diegetic...

...Unlike the physicist, the musicologist or the sociologist studying the intricacies of real-life sound, all of whom have a number of solid methodologies at their disposal, the literary scholar assessing a fictional soundscape is decidedly underequipped. Phrases like ‘point of view’ or ‘looking...

...This chapter explores the sonic possibilities of the Chinese characters in Ezra Pound’s late cantos. Specifically it examines how Pound understood Chinese sound in his late career, and traces what he did with this new understanding in the late cantos. Despite Pound’s enthusiasm for Chinese sound...

...Chapter 6 covers sound, offering discussions of how the television commercial has revived, fostered, and revitalized the musical and the silent film genres, integrating sound and image in particularized respects that are markedly different than most Hollywood feature films of the late...

...This chapter addresses alleged, perceived, and longed-for correspondences between sound and vision, the rival and/or complementary sensory realm with which sound has, historically, been most often linked. It does this by first considering Charles Baudelaire’s response to Wagner’s Lohengrin overture...

... as both an ethnomusicological archivist of ‘folk’ music and a composer, lead into sustained discussion of sound recording technologies such as the gramophone, and their use to both preserve and (countervailingly) substantially inform the music they record. One musical genre decisively inflected...

... of the relationship of the notation to a phonetic theory, and on the existence of a specialised notation system. Denotational and representational functions of phonetic symbols are brought together in the concept of a descriptive model in which the notion of a segment plays a fundamental role. Sound-spelling...

...This chapter argues that Tarkovsky's Mirror encourages a fascination with its own process of cinematic imaging, in which images of everyday objects and nature are aesthetically transfigured through camera movements, filters and disjunctive editing. Sound is also transfigured, often...

... decipherment of a deathbed phrase by multiple narrators. But Welles also derives from Conrad his concern with the relationship among speech, writing, and image, a relationship transformed by new technologies of sound recording, frequently described as akin to hieroglyphs. The innovative plot structures...

... relationship with the pornographic and her appeal to little noises and listening in spectatorship. In contrast to sound in pornography which generally represents female pleasure through loud, haptic sound - often collapsing spatial realism to provide a closer sense of contact with the body on screen - Breillat...

..., domination and torture in ways that provide a different understanding of how we might become ‘all ears’ in the filmic experience, challenging previous positive conceptions of the resonant body. I show how sound works at a vibratory level in Noé, disrupting our relation to the spaces and time of the film...