[Commlist] New book: Sound and Space: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory

We are pleased to announce the publication of
Gaudin, Antoine et David Roche, dir. /Sound and Space: Craft, 
Aesthetics, Theory/. Edinburgh University press, 2025.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sound-and-space-in-film.html 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sound-and-space-in-film.html>
Book description and Table of contents below.
Regards, Antoine Gaudin and David Roche

*Description*

The first book entirely devoted to the relationship between sound and 
space in film

  * Combines an interest in craft, technique and technology with
    aesthetics, philosophy and theory
  * Analyzes a wide corpus of films (popular and art cinema, audiovisual
    media, from a variety of countries and different eras)
  * Case studies include /In Vanda’s Room, Birdman, Aural Drift, Il
    Grido, Kung Fu Chefs, Notes on Blindness /and /Drift/.

/Sound/Space in Film: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory/ brings together two 
expanding fields in contemporary film studies: soundtrack studies and 
studies of cinematic space. It takes stock of the interest in the craft 
and theory of sound space and soundscapes in artistic and academic 
circles by exploring the construction of sound space in a specific 
medium—film—from a variety of perspectives: artistic, technical, 
aesthetic and discursive.

Building on seminal works in sound studies and film studies, it examines 
both the sonic characteristics of space and the spatial dimensions of 
sound. It explores the sound of places or setting but considers, more 
broadly, the experience of cinematic space in aural and visual terms. It 
follows contemporary trends in film history and production studies that 
value the craft and discourses of sound technicians and draws on 
contemporary theoretical frameworks that emphasize the corporeality of 
experience and/or consider the environment from an ecocritical 
perspective as alive with sounds.

*Review*
This ambitious collection of essays offers significant insights into the 
crucial, often-overlooked relationships between sound and cinematic 
space. Bridging theory, aesthetics, and practice, the chapters 
compellingly explore how audiovisual space articulates with technology, 
sensoriality, politics, and ecocriticism. A major interdisciplinary 
contribution, this remarkable volume invites us to listen more closely.– 
/Chloé Huvet, Université Évry Paris-Saclay/IUF (Author of Composer pour 
l'image à l'ère numérique)./

*Contents*

Introduction: Sound and Space in Film
/Antoine Gaudin and David Roche/

*Part I. Revisiting Classical Sound Spaces*

1. Reverberation and Cinematic Representation: Debates among Technicians 
During the Transition to Sound
/James Buhler/

2. Kay Rose's Spatial Sound Design and Soundscapes for /The River /(1984)
/Helen Hanson/

3. Sound Space: Spatial Events and Material Affects
/Serge Cardinal/

*Part II. Creating Sound Spaces*

4. /Mise-en-sonore/: Placemaking in Film and Audiovisual Media Artwork
/Budhaditya Chattopadhyay/

5. The Contradictory Functions of Offscreen Sound in /In/ /Vanda’s Room/ 
(Pedro Costa, 2000)
/Amanda Robles/

6. Sounds from the Space of the Film Set to the Space of the Auditorium: 
The Uses of Mixdown in Contemporary French Cinema
/Camille Pierre/

*Part III. Negotiating Space through the Senses*

7. Michelangelo Antonioni's Soundscapes and the Relation between Humans 
and the Environment
/Sylvie Dubois/

8. Raindrops Keep Falling on the Screen: Resonance in Sensory Disability 
Cinema, following the Path of Jean-Luc Nancy
/Marie Martin/

8. In the Kitchen: The Poetics and Geopolitics of Sound Gestures in 
Indian, Chinese and Hong Kong Cinemas
/Térésa Faucon/

*Part IV. The Ecopoetics and Ecopolitics of Sound Space*

10. Binding the British Nation Together through Sound in Official 
Documentaries of the Second World War
/Anita Jorge/

11. Towards an Ecopoetics of Silence in Cinema: Walking in the Woods to 
Experience the World Differently
/Louis Daubresse/

12. Narrative Ecology and the Politics of Ambient Sounds in /Drift/ 
(Helena Wittmann, 2017)
/Jade de Cock de Rameyen/

/Index/

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