Sound and Space in Film

Craft, Aesthetics, Theory

Antoine Gaudin, David Roche (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4487-0 (ISBN)

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The first book entirely devoted to the relationship between sound and space in film.

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.

Antoine Gaudin is Associate Professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is the author of L’Espace cinématographique: esthétique et dramaturgie (2015) and has co-edited an issue of the journal Théorème entitled Représentations-limites des corps sexuels dans le cinéma et l’audiovisuel contemporains (2018, with Martin Goutte and Barbara Laborde). He has published many articles on cinematic space and music and sound in film and is editor of the book review section of the academic website nonfiction.fr. He is currently writing a monograph on music videos. David Roche is Professor of Film Studies at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, a 2022-27 IUF member and President of SERCIA. His recent publications include the monographs Arrival (2024), Meta in Film and Television Series (2022). His articles have appeared in the journals Adaptation, Horror Studies, Journal of Film and Video, Miranda, Positif, Post-script and TV/Series among others. His current research focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and politics, with particular interest in the work of women directors in the scope of the FEMME ANR project.

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Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: Sound and Space in Film
Antoine Gaudin and David Roche

Part I. Revisiting Classical Sound Spaces

1. Reverberation and Cinematic Representation: Debates among Technicians During the Transition to Sound
James Buhler

2. Kay Rose's Spatial Sound Design and Soundscapes for The River (1984)
Helen Hanson

3. Sound Space: Spatial Events and Material Affects
Serge Cardinal

Part II. Creating Sound Spaces

4. Mise-en-sonore: Placemaking in Film and Audiovisual Media Artwork
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

5. The Contradictory Functions of Offscreen Sound in In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
Amanda Robles

6. Sounds from the Space of the Film Set to the Space of the Auditorium: The Uses of Mixdown in Contemporary French Cinema
Camille Pierre

Part III. Negotiating Space through the Senses

7. Michelangelo Antonioni's Soundscapes and the Relation between Humans and the Environment
Sylvie Dubois

8. Raindrops Keep Falling on the Screen: Resonance in Sensory Disability Cinema, following the Path of Jean-Luc Nancy
Marie Martin

8. In the Kitchen: The Poetics and Geopolitics of Sound Gestures in Indian, Chinese and Hong Kong Cinemas
Térésa Faucon

Part IV. The Ecopoetics and Ecopolitics of Sound Space

10. Binding the British Nation Together through Sound in Official Documentaries of the Second World War
Anita Jorge

11. Towards an Ecopoetics of Silence in Cinema: Walking in the Woods to Experience the World Differently
Louis Daubresse

12. Narrative Ecology and the Politics of Ambient Sounds in Drift (Helena Wittmann, 2017)
Jade de Cock de Rameyen

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Music and the Moving Image
Zusatzinfo	26 B&W images
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-3995-4487-X / 139954487X
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4487-0 / 9781399544870
Zustand	Neuware