Call for Papers for Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
London, March 31-April 3, 2005
Hearing Things: Sound in Television, Radio, and New Media
Emphasis on the visual in film and media studies has led to a neglect of
sound -- whether music, dialogue, sound effects, or other aural techniques
-- as an area of study. Film sound has received a growing amount of
critical attention, but sound in television and in emerging media such as
web sound, video game sound, and sound on DVDs -- has been almost entirely
overlooked. Radio and audio recordings, as sound only media, have also
suffered neglect.
This panel is looking for papers that examine sound as a crucial component
of television, radio and new media's expressive and aesthetic
forms. Papers focusing on aesthetic, industrial, historical and cultural
aspects of sound in media -- which may also include film as part of a
broader focus -- are invited to begin to explore the emerging field of
sound culture studies. What are the functions of sound in television and
new media? What role does sound play in genre definition and
conventions? How is sound in television distinct from sound in film? How
has sound been theorized, and can theories developed for a specific medium
-- ie film -- be applied to other forms? Can we develop an aesthetics of
aurality, especially for sound-only media? What is the relationship of
music to other types of sound, and how is its use distinct in television
and new media? How do qualities of the voice function in representational
regimes -- ie gender, race, age, ethnicity -- and how does the "disembodied
voice" negotiate embodied identities?
These are only a few of the many questions that need to be asked and
answered to arrive at something we might call sound culture studies.
Please send proposals (250 words, brief biblio, brief bio) or completed SAF
forms (see www.cmstudies.org) to Michele Hilmes, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, at [log in to unmask] by August 15.
Michele Hilmes
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison
6040 Vilas Hall
821 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-2543
608-262-2547
608-262-9953 fax
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Michele Hilmes
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison
6040 Vilas Hall
821 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-2543
608-262-2547
608-262-9953 fax
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