THEORIES OF SOUND

Film Theory Week 2 Seminar

Dr. Dan Leberg
THE PLAN FOR TODAY

• Quick Announcements
• Presentation
• Coffee
• More Discussion of
Chion and Altman
 THIS WEEK’S ACM
SCREENING!

Wednesday at 11:00 in the Forum (screening

room 5)
 If you changed seminar groups between blocks:
• you keep your Extended Response topics
from Block 3
• Please label them for your current seminar group
though!

EXTENDED RESPONSES • and you still need to present, come talk to me

ASAP

Am I missing anything?
PRESENTATION
COFFEE
 GENERAL CHECK-IN

• How did this week’s readings go?

• What was interesting?
• What stood out?
• What made no sense at all because you could have taken that introductory Music course last year but you
didn’t so now everything is awful?

• What parts of this do you want to talk about?

 KEY TERM REHEARSAL

• What are the 4 ½ fallacies that Altman attributes to the (critical) understanding
of film sound, and what do they each mean?
• What does Chion mean by:
• Spatial magnetism?
• Temporal succession
• Temporal vectorization?
• Synch points?
 EXTRA DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

• How do this week’s theorists envision (or not) the indexicality of film sound?
• How does that compare with the way they consider the indexicality of moving images?
• Which of Altman’s Fallacies resonate with Kracauer’s realist vs. formative
tendencies, and how?
 FOR NEXT WEEK

Read lots
Watch Cinemania
Come with questions, and/or send them to Dan
in advance!