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Are recent audiovisual developments providing subversive/progressive…
Are recent audiovisual developments providing subversive/progressive alternatives to the way women are portrayed in film?
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Sensuality/embodiment
Examples
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Atomic Blonde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXrcFBJXjMI can't decide where this type of example would fit? Because the bodily sound effects, visceral nature of it are on the side of embodiment/using sound to engage the senses/body of the viewer etc. But it's the genre is very different to the other examples in here
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Key theorists
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Michel Chion: 'rendering', sensation
Kulezic-Wilson: Sound Design is the New Score. Sensuous aspects of the film form on micro and macro level, structure, editing, speech and soundtrack
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Audiences
Do audiences relate to the women they are seeing on screen in the way I have suggested? I.e. are they embodying their experiences?
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What role is sound playing here? If the sound is gone, do these modes of representation have the same affect on audiences?
Do study participants naturally mention sound if we asked e.g. 'do you identify with the character' and then if 'yes', 'what techniques does this clip use to help you identify with the character?', or similar. If anyone mentions sound I could follow up with them
Could replace a scene in 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' with overly sentimental music and ask people a series of questions like:
- What personality traits do you think these women have?
- How does this scene make you feel and why?
- What do you think is the nature of the relationship between these women?
Can somehow try to measure people's bodily reactions to what they are seeing to see to what extent they are 'sharing the experience' with the characters as Sciamma says
One thing I was really interested to ask is whether people find certain sound effects make them think of a particular gender. Or to ask them to image - who might cause this sound effect? I think Kassabian cited a study where people heard music and were asked to say what the imagined the scenario to be
Increased potential/importance for the role of sound, reflected in increased scholarly attention to sound
What affect does this have for the concept of 'the gaze'? Does it make this theory irrelevant, or reformulate it, or refine it?
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Cross-media influences
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Key theorists
Carol Vernallis: 'audiovisual turn', 'media swirl'
Greater technical ability in sound design, audiovisual synchronicity, editing
Cross-fertilisation between media e.g. YouTube, music video, film, advertising, VR, video games
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Remembering that just because something is 'new' or more recent doesn't make it automatically progressive politically or culturally