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Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,601
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Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory (Hardcover): Elsie Walker

Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory (Hardcover)

Elsie Walker

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Until recently, most scholars neglected the power of hearing cinema as well as seeing it. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. The book includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies, post-colonialism, and queer theory. The films come from disparate temporal and industrial contexts: from Classical Hollywood Gothic melodrama (Rebecca (1940)), to contemporary, critically-acclaimed science fiction (Gravity (2013)). Along with sound tracks from canonical American films, such as The Searchers (1956) and To Have and Have Not (1944), Walker analyzes independent Australasian films: examples include Heavenly Creatures (1994), a New Zealand film that uses music to empower its queer female protagonists; and Ten Canoes (2006), the first Australian feature film with a script entirely in Aboriginal languages. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory thus not only calls new attention to the significance of sound tracks-it also focuses on the sonic power of characters representing those whose voices have all too often been drowned out. Dominant studies of film music tend to be written for those who are already musically trained. Similarly, studies of film sound tend to be jargon-heavy. By contrast, Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory is both rigorous and accessible to all scholars with a basic grasp of cinematic and musical structures. Moreover, the book brings together film studies, musicology, history, politics, and culture. Therefore, Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory will resonate for scholars across the liberal arts, and for anyone interested in challenging the so-called "hegemony of the visual."

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2015
Authors: Elsie Walker (Associate Professor of Film Studies)
Dimensions: 257 x 184 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-989630-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Musical scores, lyrics & libretti
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
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LSN: 0-19-989630-5
Barcode: 9780199896301

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