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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 September 2023
- ISBN 9780190226145
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 160x235x16 mm
- Weight 376 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 b/w photos 444
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Short description:
In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. The book provides a tool kit for readers to hear films with new ears, to think critically about this new listening practice, and to extend that engagement beyond the walls of the screening room by opening works of audiovisual media up to the consideration of soundscape research.
MoreLong description:
In Acoustic Profiles, author Randolph Jordan proposes a new model for image-sound analysis that incorporates the vocabulary and methods of environmental studies, specifically exploring the potential of a model based on acoustic ecology. Jordan uses close readings of films to connect the diverse fields of architecture, environmental studies, art history, the history of modernity, and media studies through the tenets of acoustic ecology. In relating ways of thinking about sound from acoustic ecology to film studies and vice versa, Acoustic Profiles takes an interdisciplinary approach to inspire readers to experience cinematic art as a motivator of greater environmental purposes and to understand the role of the media in achieving those purposes.
The book's method is referred to as acoustic profiling, a theoretical tool for hearing how filmmakers articulate spatial dimensions in their works. To that end, the book demonstrates how the creative use of media technologies in different fields can be understood relationally through the ecological issues that connect them, revivifying acoustic ecology for media studies while broadening the latter's ecological scope. The book provides a tool kit for readers to hear films with new ears, to think critically about this new listening practice, and to extend that engagement beyond the walls of the screening room by opening works of audiovisual media up to the consideration of soundscape research.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Acoustic Profiling
Chapter 1: Audible Transparency: Modernist Acoustic Design in Jacques Tati's Playtime
Chapter 2: Immersive Reflexivity: Documenting the Inaudible in Peter Mettler's Picture of Light
Chapter 3: Reflective Empathy: Soundscape Composition and the Spatialization of Music in Gus Van Sant's Last Days
Chapter 4: The Schizophonographic Imagination: Visualizing the Myth of Sonic Fidelity in David Lynch's Twin Peaks
Chapter 5: Unsettled Listening: Tracking Vancouver's Contested Acoustic Profiles across Media
Conclusion: A Position Piece
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