Sound and space in film : craft, aesthetics, theory / edited by Antoine Gaudin and David Roche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaudin, Antoine, editor.

Roche, David, 1976- editor.

Series:

Music and the moving image

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound in motion pictures.

Space in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures--History.

Film soundtracks.

sound tracks.

sound effects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"The first book entirely devoted to the relationship between sound and space in film Combines an interest in craft, technique and technology with aesthetics, philosophy and theoryAnalyzes a wide corpus of films (popular and art cinema, audiovisual media, from a variety of countries and different eras)Case studies include In Vanda's Room, Birdman, Aural Drift, Il Grido, Kung Fu Chefs, Notes on Blindness and Drift.Sound/Space in Film: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory brings together two expanding fields in contemporary film studies: soundtrack studies and studies of cinematic space. It takes stock of the interest in the craft and theory of sound space and soundscapes in artistic and academic circles by exploring the construction of sound space in a specific medium--film--from a variety of perspectives: artistic, technical, aesthetic and discursive. Building on seminal works in sound studies and film studies, it examines both the sonic characteristics of space and the spatial dimensions of sound. It explores the sound of places or setting but considers, more broadly, the experience of cinematic space in aural and visual terms. It follows contemporary trends in film history and production studies that value the craft and discourses of sound technicians and draws on contemporary theoretical frameworks that emphasize the corporeality of experience and/or consider the environment from an ecocritical perspective as alive with sounds"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Introduction : sound and space in film / Antoine Gaudin and David Roche

Reverberation and cinematic representation : debates among the technicians during the transition to sound / James Buhler

Kay Rose’s spatial sound design and soundscapes for The River (1984) / Helen Hanson

Sound space : spatial events and material affects / Serge Cardinal

Mise-en-sonore : placemaking in film and audiovisual media artwork / Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

The contradictory functions of offscreen sound in In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa, 2000) / Amanda Robles

Sounds from the space of the film set to the space of the auditorium : the uses of mixdown in contemporary French cinema / Camille Pierre

Michelangelo Antonioni’s soundscapes and the relation between humans and the environment / Sylvie Dubois

Raindrops keep falling on the screen : resonance in sensory disability cinema, following the path of Jean-Luc Nancy / Marie Martin

In the kitchen : the poetics and geopolitics of sound gestures in contemporary Indian, Chinese and Hong Kong cinemas / Térésa Faucon

Binding the British nation together through sound in official documentaries of the Second World War / Anita Jorge

Toward an ecopoetics of silence in cinema : walking in the woods to experience the world differently / Louis Daubresse

Narrative ecology and the politics of ambient sounds in Drift (Helena Wittmann, 2017) / Jade de Cock de Rameyen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed December 19, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Sound and space in film

ISBN:

9781399544894

1399544896

9781399544887

1399544888

OCLC:

1545079814

Publisher Number:

CIPO000292031

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