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Occult Aesthetics - Synchronization in Sound Film (Hardcover, New)
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Occult Aesthetics - Synchronization in Sound Film (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Music/Media Series
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In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed film music author Kevin
Donnelly offers the first sustained theorization of synchronization
in sound film. Donnelly addresses the manner in which the lock of
the audio and the visual exerts a perceptible synergy, 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 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 viewer, a
discomfort that signals moments of danger. From this perspective,
the interplay between the two becomes the central dynamic of
audio-visual culture more generally, which, as Donnelly argues,
provides a starting point for a new understanding of audio/visual
interactions. This fresh approach to the topic is discussed in
theoretical and historical terms as well as elaborated through
analysis of and reference to a broad selection of films and their
soundtracks including, among others, Singin' in the Rain, Saw,
Shanghai Express, and Assault on Precinct 13.
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