Questions framing the course include the relation of sound and image, aural and visual pleasures, soundscapes and theories of shock and modernity, the relation of voice and body to subject formation, sound in silent cinema, the aesthetics of analog and digital sound in cinema, sound technologies and imperialism, theories of non-cinematic audio technology such as radio and gramophone, debates over the ontological status of recorded sound, film sound and space, sound in documentary cinema, and culturally specific theories of sound.

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