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Philippe Mather <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:28:59 -0600
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At 11:25 AM 11/5/96 -0400, Mike Frank wrote:
 
> . . . for if in fact we NEED some
>"logocentric" clues to help us make sense of the flux of images that is the
>visual world, why do we keep on privileging those images? . . . is it merely
>on the basis of the convention of "mechanical reproduction" (as opposed to
>human interpretation mediated by human will)? . . . or is there something
>more going on here??
 
        Offhand, this sounds like the "ideological undermining of the aural
dimension" that C.Metz writes about ("Aural Objects", in _Film Sound_, ed.
E.Weis & J.Belton), and that K.Silverman (among many others) discusses in
_The Acoustic Mirror_, this long-standing axiology which pits the acoustic
realm against the visual realm:
 
IMAGE      SOUND
--------------------
Male       Female
Looking    Listening
Active     Passive
Reason     Emotion
Public     Private
 
etc...
 
        There are psychoanalytical theories which seek to explain this, but
it has always seemed to me that they merely serve to confirm the dominant
ideology rather than truly *explain* how it might have come about, in the
"history of consciousness". I'd love to hear others elaborate on this...
 
Philippe Mather
 
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