Film Theory by Colman Felicity;

Author:Colman, Felicity;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PER004030, Performing Arts/Film & Video/History & Criticism, PER004040, Performing Arts/Film & Video/Reference
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

From auto to audio mediation

The technologies of film sound have received more dedicated attention than other areas of film production, perhaps because sound lends itself to abstraction more readily than the pragmatics of lighting or make up. Composer Michel Chion has argued extensively and influentially for the recognition of watching film to become known as an ‘audio-viewing’, in order to account for the ways in which the technologies of sound direct the viewer as auditor’s attention (see Chion 2009). His logic is similar to Stiegler in that his position is also for a cognition of the autonomy of the technic. There are detailed histories of film sound that offer some critical synopsis of films, but do not offer a system for theorisation in their analyses (cf. Brophy 1998, 2004). However technical, all sound books infer the same thing: sound is a composite part of the image. Sound activates certain elements in an image. A handful of theorists have dedicated their work to film sounds. Film sound can refer to a musical score, speech, noise, screen silence and chance or found sounds recorded (cf. Attali 1985; Schaeffer 2004; Chion 2005). The acoustic experience can alter the visual image in dramatic or subtle ways, as sound appeals to a different range of sensorial experiences of the auditor. Names and faces may recede into memory, but fragments of place and situation can be readily invoked through the neurological affect of audition. Sound is thus a cause whose effect exceeds itself, as it creates an emanative property. How that is produced in film, produced for film or edited in post-production for a film – all has different effects upon the film’s own immanent properties (see, for example, the range of essays on sound matters in Harper et al. 2006).

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