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Listening Beyond the Image: Toward a Trans-Sensory Cinema

Motts, J.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9538-2587
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501099367573869

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2017, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
This thesis, written in English, proposes an ethico-affective theory of the sound event in film in an effort to rethink the relationship of film and spectator in terms of listening. The movements of the argument progress through an analysis of a two-minute scream from Maïwenn’s 2011 film, Polisse, that works to demonstrate the ways in which resonances in theoretical language on film, sound, affect and music, specifically as they relate to the interstice from Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 2: the Time-Image, help us to think of the spectator in terms of her active participation in film’s material. This step away from cinematographic analysis forces us to scrutinize the methods through which film directly affects the senses of its spectators in ways that confound their ability to "read" the image. As such affections, as Baruch Spinoza suggests, influence how the spectator perceives her own capacity to act in the world, this thesis concludes that listening for sound events in film allows us to perceive the ethical dimensions of film and spectatorship.
Elisabeth Hodges (Advisor)
Jonathan Strauss (Committee Member)
Mack Hagood (Committee Member)
59 p.
Ethics; Film Studies; Mass Media; Motion Pictures; Music
film theory; affect theory; sound theory; ethics; interstice; listening; Deleuze; Spinoza; Bergson; Schaeffer; Chion; scream; shock; vibration; rhythm; senses; body; spectatorship; multiplicity

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  • Motts, J. (2017). Listening Beyond the Image: Toward a Trans-Sensory Cinema [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501099367573869

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Motts, J.. Listening Beyond the Image: Toward a Trans-Sensory Cinema. 2017. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501099367573869.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Motts, J.. "Listening Beyond the Image: Toward a Trans-Sensory Cinema." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501099367573869

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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