Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound

by Tony Grajeda and Jay Beck

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also analyzes how shifting modulation of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075323
• ISBN13: 9780252075322
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"