Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this adventure is Michel Chion, a music composer and theoretician, who studies cinematic language with a focus in the auditory realm and the audio-visual relationships. Although sometimes Chion [...]
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Although the practice of building a film music score by selecting a number of pre-recorded songs has been well established since the 1970s, this method of “composing” was limited to specific genres, styles, and particular periods of time. It was not until the 1990s that the “compilation score” became a practice in which the directors [...] Grotesque, Gothic, and bizarre, are some of the adjectives that commonly describe the films directed by Tim Burton. Although their stories are often simple, Burton’s films have unique visual and aural styles that complement the lack of narrative complexity and captivate the audience with their rich symbolism and energy. On the one hand, their visual [...] I have been back in my homeland, Colombia, and I have been on the road and on the streets re-visiting some towns and cities. I received the new year 2012 in Cartagena de Indias, a city in the Caribbean coast plenty of history (founded in 1533 by by Spanish commander Pedro de Heredia in the [...] As a researcher interested in the aural dimension of culture and everyday life, I feel engaged with the scholarly conversation on sound studies that is presented in Cinema Journal In Focus Issue 48.1. Several times during my academic journey, I have asked myself similar questions and confront similar problems to the ones that Coates, Friz, [...] |
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