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As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a
decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film
sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models
of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which
musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient
noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom
also analyzes how shifting modulation of the spoken word in cinema
results in variations in audience interpretation. Introducing new
methods of thinking about the interaction of sound and music in
films, this volume also details avant-garde film sound, which is
characterized by a distinct break from the narratively based sound
practices of mainstream cinema. This interdisciplinary, global
approach to the theory and history of film sound opens the eyes and
ears of film scholars, practitioners, and students to film's true
audio-visual nature.
Analysts today routinely look toward the media and popular culture
as a way of understanding global security. Although only a decade
ago, such a focus would have seemed out of place, the proliferation
of digital technologies in the twenty-first century has transformed
our knowledge of near and distant events so that it has become
impossible to separate the politics of war, suffering, terrorism,
and security from the practices and processes of the media. In
Rethinking Global Security, Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring
together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our
notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by
intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite
imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide
variety of disciplines, including communications, art history,
media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both
fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to
create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful - of
images, stories, reports, and policy decisions. such as Howard
Stern, to the role that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other
television programming play as an interpretative frame for current
events. Designed to promote strategic thinking about the
relationships between media, popular culture, and global security,
this book is essential reading for scholars of international
relations, technology, and media studies.
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