Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory analyzes all aural aspects of cinema using several approaches: feminism, genre studies, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. In her analysis of each sound track, Walker brings together film studies, musicology, histor…
Until recently, most scholars neglected the power of hearing cinema as well as seeing it. 'Understanding sound tracks through film theory' breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. The book includes sustained an…
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, fem…
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, fem…
Hearing Haneke: The Sound Tracks of a Radical Auteur' is the first book devoted to the sound tracks of Michael Haneke. Despite his notorious preoccupation with violence, this book shows how Haneke uses sound to reawaken our capacity for hearing the world with greater compassiona…
Why does hearing Haneke's films matter? -- Introduction: Hearing Haneke through the critical ruckus -- The Seventh Continent: the noises of consumerism, the music of something more -- Funny Games: amplifying violence, the violators, and the victims -- Code Unknown: sonically rep…
Why does hearing Haneke's films matter? -- Introduction: Hearing Haneke through the critical ruckus -- The Seventh Continent: the noises of consumerism, the music of something more -- Funny Games: amplifying violence, the violators, and the victims -- Code Unknown: sonically rep…
Haneke's films are sonically charged experiences of disturbance, desperation, grief, and many forms of violence. They are unsoftened by music, punctuated by accosting noises, shaped by painful silences, and defined by aggressive dialogue. Haneke is among the most celebrated of l…