Earogenous Zones
Sound, Sexuality and Cinema
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 24. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-84553-318-2 (ISBN)
Description
With its capacity to defamiliarize and subvert visual representation, sound is not simply a source of information supplementary to the visual in the cinematic representation of sexuality, but a site of ambiguous ideologies and power relations.
This collection exemplifies a variety of approaches to the sonic representation of sexuality in cinema. It draws on a range of sexual scenarios from pornography to sci-fi to art-house and includes cinema from various cultures and countries. Among the topics addressed are how the deployment of sound is implicated in gender politics in the representation of sexuality and how sounds are able to radically colour and even override the visual and lexical content of a film.
Through sonicity the film-maker can challenge the ideologies at play underneath surface stereotypes, and introduce emotional overtones which meliorate the alienation generally associated with porn. Sound and music can establish a historical period as well as spatially localize sexuality within a framework that problematizes the distinctions between porn and erotica. They can introduce into the ahistorical sextopia of porn the cultural specificity of the notion of ‘pornography’ and indeed can shift a film in and out of that category, even desexualizing the naked human body.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-318-2 (9781845533182)
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12/2017
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12/2017
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Person
University of Turku, Finland
Content
Introduction Bruce Johnson 1. Sound Decisions: Interviews with Ole Ege Bruce Johnson 2. Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Cliche: Erotic Plenitude in the Films of Russ Meyer Mark Evans (with Matt Burgess) 3. The Push/Pull Game: The Dynamics of Sound in Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky Lesley Chow, film writer 4. Depraved Desire: Sado-Masochism, Sexuality and Sound in mid-1970s Cinema Clarice Butkus, MA candidate, New York University 5. The Peculiar 'Love' Music in Oshima's Ai no korida James Wierzbicki, University of Michigan 6. Lust in Space: Science Fiction Themes & Sex Cinema (1960-82) Phil Hayward, Southern Cross University and Macquarie University 7. Zero Gravity Phil Hayward and Emil Stoichkov, actor and filmmaker 8. It's Gotta Be That New Wave MusicA": Music in New Wave Hookers Carries the Joke Laura Wiebe Taylor, PhD candidate, McMaster University 9. Making a mall movie about a man with a 13-inch penisA": popular music representations of pornographic intention Liz Giuffre, PhD candidate, Macquarie University 10. Musical Spirals: Eyes Wide Shut - Ears Wide Open Kevin Clifton, Indiana State University 11. Multiple Positions: Sound, Sex and Aural Dominance in 9 Songs Andrea Warren, independent scholar 12. Music, Image, and Orgasm: Getting Off on the Shortbus Marianne Tatom Letts, independent scholar 13. In Extremis: The roots, soundscapes and significations of 21st Century zombie porn Ralph Marsh, independent scholar