Retuning the Screen: Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film and Media History (History of Cinema) - Softcover

 
9788869773310: Retuning the Screen: Sound Methods and the Aural Dimension of Film and Media History (History of Cinema)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8869773310 ISBN 13: 9788869773310
Publisher: Mimesis International, 2026

Synopsis

Aural epistemologies reframes cinema and visual media as research objects through theoretical concepts and listening culture.

Far from merely considering the aural ‘segments’ of audiovisual texts (i.e. the soundtrack) in terms of their expressive and artistic significance, or being concerned only with ‘audio’ and technologically mediated sound in and of itself, this volume aims to understand how the theoretical concepts and methods developed to investigate aurality could reframe cinema and visual media as research objects. Distributed across ten different thematic sections, the contributors develop the theoretical content of ‘aural epistemologies’ in Film and Media Studies, discuss the role of listening culture in our experience as film spectators and media users and, finally, re-assess the significance of sound archives and sonic archaeologies in relation to our knowledge of past (sound)mediascapes.

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Publisher
Mimesis International
Publication date
2026
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8869773310
ISBN 13 
9788869773310
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
324
Editor
Dotto Simone