Situated listening : the sound of absorption in classical cinema / Giorgio Biancorosso.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Biancorosso, Giorgio, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema, author Giorgio Biancorosso examines the historical challenge of representing listening on screen. Through analysis of classic films, Situated Listening proves that cinema functions as a reservoir of established modes of listening and an agent in the development of new listening practices.

Contents:

• The character-as-vector. Music, off stage ; The listener in the picture ; The radio broadcast as anamorphic spot ; The spectator as situated listener
• Heterological silence. Epiphanies ; Love at first sight.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 0-19-049319-4
• 0-19-049320-8
• 0-19-970549-6