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Sound design for film: liberating from image, seducing surrender
(2022) Novack, David William; Ribeiro, Luís Cláudio, orient.
Sound Design for film is a subject of increasing critical studies in recent decades. Michel Chion’s foundational theories provide strong frameworks for discussing film sound, however most of his work and the work of others have theorized sound in constricted paradigms rooted in image theory, greatly limiting the discourse around the functions of sound in film. This doctorate thesis is a work of artistic research by a film sound practitioner and posits a path to liberate sound design from image first by critically examining sound theory, then articulating sound functions with broader cinematic, linguistic and philosophical writings. We then create an artistic output that sheds light on specific functions of sound design that are not well explained by existing theory, and interrogate those functions via statistically-based content analysis. With these functions established, we turn to Genette’s narrative discourse as a possible avenue for establishing a rhetorical construction for sound design as a direct means of communication, and we apply an extrapolated model to an analysis of Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine. In conclusion, we find that sound subverts image paradigms altogether via a hybrid engagement we call surrender, and offers the listener-viewer a path, beyond representation, to experience.